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The Factors That Influence Acceptance Of AI In Hospitality

The Horizons Tracker

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in enhancing hotel operations and streamlining efficiency. Customer perceptions “We looked at a number of things that could influence customers when they delegate some of their decisions to AI,” the researchers explain.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

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How Will AI Change Work? Here Are 5 Schools of Thought

Harvard Business Review

It’s critical for companies to understand the range of opinions on this issue, because implicitly or explicitly, they will influence the way business leaders create the workforce of the future. AI systems will take on tasks at the heart of middle- and high-skill jobs, while robots will perform menial work that requires low-skill labor.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Cuba desperately needs to do away with its dual currency system. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. Currency confusion.

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How To Choose The Next Head of the Fed

Harvard Business Review

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. And it will influence the long-term future of the U.S. It should be drawn as a question of growth strategy and economic policy, ensuring that Western companies retain their license to operate in the future global economy.

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Global Demand for Food Is Rising. Can We Meet It?

Harvard Business Review

While Big Food companies such as General Mills or Unilever have tremendous global influence on what people eat, trading companies have a much greater impact on food security, because they source and distribute our staple foods and the ingredients used by Big Food, from rice, wheat, corn, and sugar to soybean and oil palm.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America).