Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. beastfromeast/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

It existed in over half the companies in 2013 with 20% officially allowing it, but both these numbers dropped a year later; by 2014, just over one-third said it existed, and only 7% officially allowed it. BYOPC truly exploded, nearly doubling from 44% to 80% between 2013 and 2014, with a jump in unofficial use making the big difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Our research and client engagement experience has shown us that generating strong returns from the digital sensors, wireless communications devices, digital cameras installed in buildings and other smart, connected devices does not come down to writing big checks or being technologically savvy. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Capitalize on success.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” billion annually in currency operations costs. Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, and the banking institutions.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

France: Pushing quotas and operational roles. France is one of the rare countries to have so many of their most senior women in operational roles, rather than the staff and support function jobs that has been the initial answer of so many companies trying to balance their teams. You’ll find the more detailed reports here.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Ten days after her husband died unexpectedly while on vacation in Mexico, Sheryl Sandberg returned to work as chief operating officer at Facebook. In Lean In , her 2013 manifesto about how women need to forge ahead professionally, Sandberg credited her husband, David Goldberg, for providing the support she needed to thrive professionally.

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Chief Technology Officer Travel Chief Operating Officer Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles.

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For decades now, every major environmental regulation has met significant resistance from the industries most affected. What about the companies and entrepreneurs that create cleaner ways of operating or provide the pollution-reducing technologies? That should be expected, but let's deal in reality, not hyperbole.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. companies have had to boost productivity with new technologies and supply chains, while offering new products. manufacturing has adapted and grown, not declined.

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