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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. When Joseph Sirosh joined Amazon.com in 2004, he began seeing the value of AI to reduce fraud, bad debt, and the number of customers who didn’t get their goods and suppliers who didn’t get their money.

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Rethinking "One Share, One Vote"

Harvard Business Review

Vice President Al Gore, McKinsey Managing Director Dominic Barton (see his HBR article and blog ), and Vanguard Group founder John Bogle have advocated bolstering the voting rights of long-term shareholders or, conversely, withholding them from short-term investors. Prominent commentators such as former U.S.