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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

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. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields.

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

Harvard Business Review

The size and influence of U.S. 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. .” How Dodd-Frank could make the next crisis worse: “I have two concerns that persist.