UpFront
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Harvard suspends Roland Fryer, star economist, after harassment inquiries
Harvard's actions represent a remarkable fall from grace for an economist who until recently was among the profession's most admired researchers — and one of Harvard's highest-paid faculty members.
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Julie Sweet to run Accenture, adding a woman to the ranks of corporate CEOs
With Sweet's appointment, 27 women will be leading companies in the S&P 500. That figure is up slightly from a year ago, but still means that just slightly more than 5% of the most valuable public companies in the United States are led by women
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14 Indian companies in Forbes Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion 2019 list
India's representation on the list indicates that midsized companies in the country have performed better in the last one year, as 10 new companies get added to the list this year
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US Federal Reserve chair raises 'serious concerns' about Facebook's cryptocurrency 'Libra'
Fed chair Jerome Powell says concerns about Facebook's Libra include 'money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability'
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Augmented reality is changing how blue collar workers are trained, one headset at a time
Technology has played a central role in white-collar workplaces for decades, with a screen in front of every employee; now devices like Microsoft HoloLens is putting technology in the hands of workers who don't sit behind a desk
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Indigo: Will bickering friends bring down what they built?
Blow-by-blow account of the now very public conflict between the airline's co-founders Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal
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Twitter rolls out narrower restriction on speech
An effort at Twitter to forbid "dehumanizing" tweets was scaled back after criticism and debate, and for now focuses only on those directed at religious groups
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India's Moon Mission: All you need to know about Chandrayaan-2
When Chandrayaan-2 makes a soft-landing on the moon later this year, it will become only the fourth country in the world to do so, after US, former USSR and China
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Byju's raises $150 million from Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures
The Byju Raveendran-led online learning app provider expects to use the fresh round of funding to "aggressively" expand its business and deepen its technologies
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'People who can draw insights from real-time data will influence decision-making in the future'
Forbes India in conversation with Hitesh Oberoi, CEO & Managing Director of Info Edge (India), on how the profitable Rs 1,098-crore online classifieds conglomerate is harnessing data and AI (artificial intelligence) across businesses like recruitment, real estate, matrimony and education.
