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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

Accountability throughout the organization. Cloud service providers are increasingly proxies for utilities — they require 100% uptime, significant quantities of their own power, and predictable variable cost (which for renewables is nearly zero). And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. For example, Twitter provides “cost per ad engagement.”