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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. How do companies get to Phase 4?

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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The Hidden Power of Mundane Ideas

Harvard Business Review

So many factors — not the least of which include testing a larger, more diverse sample of people — contribute to the accuracy of any study. A large consumer electronics manufacturer we recently worked with had launched a new hybrid TV and internet technology focused on teens. Of course not.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Asia's largest IT service provider has built what it calls a global Co-Innovation Network (COIN), which includes technology partnerships with startups and VC firms in Silicon Valley as well as academic tie-ups with leading American universities such as MIT, Georgia Tech, and Stanford.