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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While the question of correlation versus causation can be legitimately raised, a separate analysis uncovered some evidence that AI is already directly improving profits, with ROI on AI investment in the same range as associated digital technologies such as big data and advanced analytics. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. Yes — because my preference is to invest in people I know and like. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

The system was trained on a range of tasks in the medical field, including chest X-ray analysis, where the system was tasked with identifying conditions such as cardiomegaly and atelectasis. “In

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read

Harvard Business Review

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Instead, what you need to do is scenario analysis. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful.

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