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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

Every schoolchild learns that the industrial revolution began in England. Forests have been felled to demonstrate why England, and only England, had the culture and institutions to be the birthplace of modern industrial capitalism in the late 1700s. This was by any measure a primitive industry.

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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

How it will impact business, industry, and society. As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center.

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Will Netflix Flourish Where Hollywood Failed?

Harvard Business Review

But Hollywood is not just any industry. Everyone would like to be a player and Hollywood is littered with the wreckage of careers of people who looked at the entertainment industry and thought, "I would love to be a big shot and, anyhow, how hard can it be?" Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it? Well, sorry, no.

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