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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. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. That was the challenge.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

And yet for almost every company that uses CI in their decision-making, there’s another that disregards CI’s mix of industry analysis, rival positions, and market insight to their detriment. 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

And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” The size and influence of U.S. There is a lot of market power for banks over the individual businesses that borrow from them. We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market. This is better in the U.S.