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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. Make risk a strategic priority.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. IP piracy will be another major complication.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Data scientists in business process algorithmization scenarios are project managers. In such fast-changing learning environments, project and program managers can’t always know whether they will get better results from retraining people or retraining algorithms. Data scientists here facilitate.