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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. Declining energy prices would also help raise U.S. But with other countries working hard to develop their own clean technologies, the U.S.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Operational analytics recognize the need to deploy predictive analytics more broadly, but at a different price point.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Operational analytics recognize the need to deploy predictive analytics more broadly, but at a different price point.

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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. Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Still, Campbell is a great explainer.

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How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China’s State Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Forced technology transfers and theft. Now let’s turn to the forced transfers or theft of digital technologies. Although the U.S., ” These subsidies are a major problem. In May, the U.S.,