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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. The change will become invisible.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The current administration gave the auto companies way more than they wanted and froze the fuel efficiency levels. °C (3.8°F) Keeping the world at 1.5

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Bringing the Power of Platforms to Health Care

Harvard Business

A network-based service can, in aggregate, take on administrative tasks like medical claim submission and posting and get continuously smarter and more efficient with feedback from the network. Networked knowledge. Uber brought the taxi industry to its knees by figuring out how to extract new value from excess capacity in the system.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

NERA, focused on microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, ranked as the #1 economic consulting firm every year between 2009 and 2013 (stay tuned for an upcoming NERA profile). Surface Transportation. This focus on efficiency is a major defining characteristic of the high-performance culture at Oliver Wyman. Industrial Products.

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The Tragic Crash of Flight AF447 Shows the Unlikely but Catastrophic Consequences of Automation

Harvard Business

The tragic crash of Air France 447 (AF447) in 2009 sent shock waves around the world. This idea – that the same technology that allows systems to be efficient and largely error-free also creates systemic vulnerabilities that result in occasional catastrophes – is termed “ the paradox of almost totally safe systems.”

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business

India launched Aadhaar in 2009 with the then-improbable goal of giving every Indian a single digital identity in the form of a biometric authenticated 12-digit number. On July 1, 2017, all of those seventeen taxes were subsumed into one tax: the GST.