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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. Apple Economy Innovation'

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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

My research into the world’s most successful bosses has unearthed some common practices that make work much more meaningful and enjoyable. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. They reward innovation and initiative, and encourage everyone in the group to do the same. ” Just 2%!

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More CEOs Should Tell Anti-Environment Shareholders to Buzz Off

Harvard Business Review

First, making significant amounts of your own power at zero variable cost is more than nice; it’s a hedge against volatility and smooths out expenses, which makes business planning easier. Pushing back on relentless pressure to do only what seems right in the quarter is critical for success in a volatile world.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?