Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Related Video. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Brick and mortar stores seem to be going the way of the yellow pages. Looking only at that 15.2

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

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. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison — spawned huge companies that were designed around a model of scalable efficiency. In the public mind, entrepreneurs have been reduced to young people who want to create world-changing businesses that can quickly reach $1 billion or more in market value — the fabled unicorns.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

” Cook displayed a video of a woman who held her iPhone 6, the company’s upcoming upgrade, near a payment terminal. They need density—what’s known as a “thick market” in trading financial assets—more than just scale. She paid in the blink of any eye. We made an early call, on Dec.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 9, 2017

” This is what the back end of AI looks like in 2016. We call this ever-moving frontier of AI’s development, the paradox of automation’s last mile : as AI makes progress, it also results in the rapid creation and destruction of temporary labor markets for new types of humans-in-the-loop tasks.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Related Video.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Outbound Phone Marketing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2018

A higher “Volume” of data has led to more efficient decision-making in numerous instances, such as in programmatic marketing and in banking. In the field of data-driven marketing, an answer to addressing this limitation lies in blockchain technology. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. In short, Google wanted partners, not antagonists.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

Property managers forecasted an 8% increase in rents in 2016. The autonomous economy is extremely labor and capital efficient, sometimes so much so that the prices of its products decline to close to zero. Often the markets they supply shrink in size. Related Video. From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%.

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