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Rethinking "One Share, One Vote"

Harvard Business Review

Rising short-termism among investors — which threatens to destabilize both companies and the wider economy — is prompting a reconsideration of the principle that all shareholders should have equal say. Except this time the aim is to diminish its application rather than to extend its global footprint.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%.

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Whose Capitalism is it Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.'

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