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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies. They foster an environment of continuous improvement and embrace new technologies and data analytics to drive efficiency and enhance decision-making capabilities.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

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The Perils of Being a Social Media Holdout

Harvard Business Review

Social media offers a variety of opportunities for brands to understand and participate in those conversations. While participating in social media is not without risk, not participating might prove to be the greater risk — especially to reputations. This is the new frontier for reputation risk management.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms. All-In Autonomy.