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

Harvard Business Review

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. We found that industries leading in AI adoption — such as high-tech, telecom, and automotive — are also the ones that are the most digitized.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris. Or floating office buildings in Miami? How about artificial islands in other low-lying U.S.

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The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

Harvard Business Review

There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.