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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 bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within.

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Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

These companies have effectively no capex. Communication Innovation Leadership' It’s four kids and their laptops, and the entire company is run on the cloud, on Amazon Web Services, on Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and Gmail. It’s literally their laptops and their ramen noodles, and that’s it.

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

Harvard Business Review

Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. Three, in particular, have been raised by the administration and the current Republican leadership in Congress, and have some merit. And not very much capex , not very much innovation.