Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. Could you increase the anticipated sales for this model by 5% or 10% in 2015? How much more would you have to spend on sales or marketing to achieve this increase? Does your staff need further training?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

In essence, he challenged his team to act as a change leader – to disrupt before being disrupted — by interpreting the weak signals coming from the market. Launched in August 2015, Predix helps companies see how their machines and infrastructure are performing so that they can improve them constantly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Economic research shows that on-the-job training is a more effective means of training than many outside training programs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. How should we adapt our training and recruitment policies? Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If the AI you are adopting employs machine learning, you will have to round up a substantial amount of training data. If you want to affect customer engagement, for example, you will need to develop or adapt multiple AI applications and tasks that relate to different aspects of marketing, sales, and service relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. They intend to launch new products every year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Sourcing for Commitment. Screening In for Aptitude.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

China can’t build enough new hospitals and train sufficient doctors to take care of its rapidly aging population. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

By 2015 we'll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that's just the beginning. Consider Prudential's recent marketing campaign, prominently featuring Day One stories — tales of the first day of retirement. We'll need new ways to help individuals finance the frequently costly transition to what's next.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. Reallocate capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. We wanted to know how a new U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. ” (A bill was introduced in 2015 to raise the cap and liberalize other rules around H-1Bs, but died in Congress.) But in April, just after U.S.

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