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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. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. More products at more pricepoints" is their name for this strategy. (GM represented an important channel for Dupont's lacquer, artificial leather, and other products, and Pierre du Pont was on GM's Board.)

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