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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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How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers

Harvard Business Review

.” Both stories contain some truth, as a forthcoming study of activist hedge funds demonstrates. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy. The early activists were pension funds, but starting in the 1990’s some hedge funds adopted the strategy.

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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. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel. Lars is famous for that.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.