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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

Amazon, born 24 years ago, had captured about 45% of online retail commerce in the United States by 2017, but still stood for just about 5% of total US retail gross merchandise volume in that year. Those technologies started to be used about ten to 25 years ago, and the average level of absorption of these technologies was about 37% in 2017.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. The soaring U.S.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues.