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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. These include, naturally, customers and competitors, but also the less obvious responses by distribution channels, regulatory authorities, and influencing agents.

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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. .” How Dodd-Frank could make the next crisis worse: “I have two concerns that persist. First is, we continue to have a system where financial risk and intermediation are highly concentrated, more concentrated than pre-crisis.