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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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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Ethical Quandaries. Stop Judging Me.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. During the next several months, managers should discuss how to include accountability systems for algorithms.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.