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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. Well, not necessarily. So venture out.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea. More importantly, it’s easy to talk yourself into a bad idea.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously. Noble: It’s not going to be that all investing is impact investing.