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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

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Social Media's Productivity Payoff

Harvard Business Review

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system. percent of the U.S.

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SAC and the Strange Focus on Insider Trading

Harvard Business Review

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds.

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