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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

For example, Allstate Business Insurance, a division of Allstate Insurance, used the tools to develop a virtual assistant known as ABIe (pronounced “Abby”) to answer questions from its 12,000 agents. Enter ABIe (shorthand for the Allstate Business Insurance Expert), which my firm helped develop.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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How Atrius Health Is Making the Shift from Volume to Value

Harvard Business

In addition, the Care in Place team met with a leader at a large insurance company that insures 45% of Atrius Health’s elder population. The team received verbal commitment that the insurer would be willing to negotiate new reimbursement arrangements that would defray some of the cost of Care in Place.