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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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The Obama Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy

Harvard Business

But depending on one’s view of AI’s potential impact, the work described by these reports may be more influential on the long arc of history than the outcome of that election. Combined, the two reports include eighty-eight pages and twenty-five recommendations. Here are the highlights. AI policy should be an urgent concern.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? This is all promising. federal government.

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