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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. But I cannot speak too highly of Steve Levy’s superb Backchannel discussion of how Google has committed to becoming a “machine learning first” enterprise.

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

These transitions, even when scaled down to a company of 140 like mine, require a substantial amount of planning, commitment, resources and time with little room for error. This is similar to the approach that the CIA has undertaken in moving much of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

This despite doing important work for a company that seemed committed to social responsibility. Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives.

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