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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

Harvard Business Review

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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