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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Electrical vehicles in transportation. To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets. And the list goes on.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. That’s what we’ve concluded from our own proof-of-concept project, applying machine learning to a dataset of over one million bond court cases (in joint work with Himabindu Lakkaraju and Jure Leskovec of Stanford University). Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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What You Won’t Hear About Trade and Manufacturing on the Campaign Trail

Harvard Business Review

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China.