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Hard Questions on Our Transition to Driverless Cars

Harvard Business

In combination with the sharing economy, driverless vehicles are likely to be deployed in fleets, benefiting higher utilization in urban settings. Automakers are already producing self-driving autonomy features for specific uses, such as highway driving, in premium vehicles. Insight Center. This portends a dual-track future.

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Research: When a Retail Store Closes, Crime Increases Around It

Harvard Business

This idea, which Jacobs called “eyes upon the street,” has proven enormously influential, and is now a cornerstone of modern urban planning. We were able to probe this relationship in the context of restaurant and dispensary closures, offering new insights into the received wisdom.

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Announcing the CEO Club of Greater Boston

Emerson Consulting Group

Brian Urban , CEO, Sencorp. Come join 900+ of your fellow marketers for 2 days of the most impactful offering of digital marketing tactics, strategies, best practices, and insights from the top minds in the marketing world: [link]. It has added new skill sets and processes to both my own company’s procedures and its overall success.”

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What Marketers Need to Understand About Augmented Reality

Harvard Business

However, computer science and human-computer interaction research have been tackling AR for years, and borrowing insights from those fields can greatly help marketers understand what this technology will mean in commercial contexts. Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business

Every major car manufacturer is offering prototypes or early models of cars that do most of the driving automatically, including luxury models from Tesla with a built-in “autopilot” feature. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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75 Podcast Ideas and Topics to Explore in 2024

Buzzsprout

Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Urban farming If you have experience in this area, plenty of people are anxious to know how to grow their own produce. Backyard Bounty Urban Farm Academy Podcast 28.

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What Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa

Harvard Business

It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. SABMiller’s insight was simple yet powerful: like consumers the world over, Africans like beer. billion by 2050.