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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

by Bill Taylor. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. On Social Media Becoming Social Business. Great People Are Overrated. Would you rather hire one genius or 100 pretty good people? Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. Businesses should become profitable before they become big.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

Taylor Callery/Getty Images. For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. So throw Frederick W. So throw Frederick W.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.