CEO Insider

APRIL 18, 2024

In a memo circulated on Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat unveiled Google’s plans to restructure its finance organization, signaling a strategic shift towards prioritizing investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Copyright CEOWORLD magazine 2023.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. But I cannot speak too highly of Steve Levy’s superb Backchannel discussion of how Google has committed to becoming a “machine learning first” enterprise. All-In Autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.

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