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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. billion a decade later. Now the country is at a crossroads. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Again, if a fast mover gets some customers on board on one side of its platform, like diners, it attracts customers on the other side, like restaurants, which in turn makes its business more valuable to the customers on the first side. From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry.