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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. Insight Center. The Age of AI. Of course you do.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge.

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