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

Harvard Business

Insight Center. Most companies are already moving rapidly to acquire new capabilities. And 72% say they are responding to a competitive imperative — they recognize the need for new tools to keep up with rivals, both by improving productivity and by finding new sources of growth. Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. How organizations are changing.