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How Companies Are Using Machine Learning to Get Faster and More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more. Engineers, for example, have saved up to 40 hours of reporting task time each month. Predictive maintenance.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL). Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets. Changing the System.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), We also measured broader concerns such as transparency, rule of law, and regulatory quality.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.