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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. Together, green and gray solutions combine some of the resilience inherent in natural systems with the way an engineered solution can solve a specific challenge. Most obviously, we get all our food, minerals, and metals from the ground, and forests provide wood and oxygen.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. And not very much capex , not very much innovation.