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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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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. hedge funds. This is clearly where the Co-operative Bank’s program floundered. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s It is based on four questions.

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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. I’m thrilled.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Here are the six likeliest reasons I could come up with: Luck: This has been the baseline academic explanation for investing success for five decades now. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. Then Andreessen quit the board.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. 4 to $5 billion was invested by VCs in AI in 2016.

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

Harvard Business Review

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on. a better place to be.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. One 2013 study illustrates this well. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation. Insight Center. That’s high-ToMo.