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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. The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why. They had an average of 6.3

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.

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

Harvard Business Review

And not very much capex , not very much innovation. ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion. .” The real problem with the economy isn’t too little lending: “We’ve got low interest rates.