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McDonald’s and the Challenges of a Modern Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

Part of this story relates to the provenance, or origins, of its products: Chains that provide more upmarket “fast casual” dining such as Panera, Chipotle, and Shake Shack have brands that speak of freshness, health, and trustworthy sourcing. McDonald’s woes offers three lessons for others about supply-chain transparency.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Create your own internal robo-advisory service : Companies could develop their own robotic or semi-robotic advice for key decision domains. . $4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016. There are likely to be corporate equivalents of these functions.