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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Transportation. Exit Opportunities: Exit opportunities from Booz & Company are not as extensive as MBB, because the network of the pure strategy firm is still new, the training still untested, and the prestige still growing. Energy & Utilities. Financial Services. Industrials. Media & Entertainment. Oil & Gas.

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"UberCab" vs. Al Gore' $90 Trillion Plan to Rid World of Cars: Uber CEO Asks Tesla for 500,000 Autonomous Cars in 2020; Peak Cars?

MishTalk

The CEOs were Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Venture Fund, Bill Gurley of Benchmark Partners and Shervin Pishevar of Sherpa Ventures. Green Car Reports linked to a Forbes article in which Five Top VCs Predict The Future. Two of the 10 CEO predictions were about cars.

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Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

MishTalk

A section of the A9 Autobahn in Bavaria will be converted into a test route for self-driving cars, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Monday. "We The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. In fact, they are rising. It found the average marginal cost per mile was $1.68

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business

Research shows that, after salary reaches a (relatively low) level, workers value nonpecuniary factors more highly, such as on-the-job training, flexible working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Foreign subsidiaries typically have a different payroll system, and transporting payroll data to the U.S.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business

We trained our algorithms to predict the overall crime rate for the defendents eligible for bail. In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Commercial Vehicle Show April 23-25, Birmingham, UK The Commercial Vehicle Show is the UK’s largest event dedicated to road freight transport, distribution, and logistics. This event offers an opportunity to benchmark and engage with industry leaders.