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

Harvard Business

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. Our results are weighted to reflect the relative economic importance of firms of different sizes.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. This shift is long overdue.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business

But for an industry reliant on, and in many ways limited by, brick-and-mortar facilities, this movement will mean significant disruption for providers. Like many hospitals, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is actively preparing for the era of virtual care in order to best meet our patients’ needs.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. They clearly understand the importance of protecting the safety of people using our products, including users’ personal information. Insight Center. Building Trusted Products.

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Evolution of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Payments in the U.S.

Tom Spencer

As technology is continuously crafted to simplify the daily tasks in our lives, it is no surprise that peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payments have revolutionized the way we spend and transfer money. China, a country that lacked a legacy payments system, has seen rapid and widespread adoption of P2P mobile payment systems.

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3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone

Harvard Business

With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand. With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. It begs the question: Why is our financial system so inefficient? First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Distributed Database.

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