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

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag." Everyone and their mother is now an angel investor, and it is safe to say the celebritization of entrepreneurship is only going to get stronger.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag." Everyone and their mother is now an angel investor, and it is safe to say the celebritization of entrepreneurship is only going to get stronger.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

The producer-as-customer is quick to judge the product quality and adjust the design-procurement-fabrication-assembly process, as needed, should the resultant product quality fall short of expectations. This system of feedback is much the same was what was explained by W. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

The early tests that looked at the stock market and looked at short periods of time generally found pretty decent results consistent with the market efficiency insight. A lot of other stuff that looked at stocks and looked at short periods of time didn’t find much. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability.

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