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

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. dave wheeler FOR HBR. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Technology has put pressure on management fees, and this will only continue. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This makes ownership a powerful concept for those seeking to galvanize a company around sustainability. This served as a basis for conceiving a new goal of sustainable transitions f inanced worth €35 billion; by 2016, the company was had already hit €34.3 billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. Since that time, however, the U.S. has transitioned to a market-oriented system of employment. Presently, many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. They Communicate Powerful Narratives About the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. Consumers can buy modules and install them in small quantities, providing up to 1 kW of power. solar in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The country is moving rapidly toward a digital-first economy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. billion in 2016), and Mobileye (the software and chip provider for autonomous vehicles acquired by Intel for $15.3 That, at least, is what the hype around disruption would have you believe. billion in 2017).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

If you are first-to-market, but the competition has more resources, stronger marketing power, superior distribution, or sales infrastructure, your primary advantage is time — you got to the market first — so use your 15 minutes of fame well. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. And launch. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I participated in a cognitive technologies conference a few days after the November 8 election, and much of the talk at breaks (and some on the stage) was about the election results and the reasons behind them. Key aspects of the finance industry have already been automated to a substantial degree. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty. Yes, with bigger data and greater computing power than ten years ago, we can now explore ever larger sets of possible outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. The autonomous economy is where intelligent machines, robots, artificial intelligence, big data, and high-speed digital communication power production. Money spent on these necessities account for 70% of middle-class expenditures. There are 3.5 million jobs would vanish.

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