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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. that has both organizational and technological components. This is clearly where the Co-operative Bank’s program floundered.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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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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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. We all prize it. Study History.

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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.