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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6%

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2015, Maersk and MSC, the world’s two largest liner shipping companies, established 2M, a 10-year vessel sharing agreement covering 193 vessels. The alternative asset ownership and operation models often involve cooperation with a (potential) competitor, as illustrated by the above examples of 2M, ASML, and Here.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: How about if, as nations, we win together?

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

Consider all the member-owned cooperatives. alone, with 320 million people, has 350 million cooperative memberships. In a healthy society, each of the three sectors cooperates with the other two while helping to keep them in check. Some are owned by members, others by no-one. When one sector dominates, society suffers.

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