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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states (including Florida, Texas and Arizona)—because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather—about 10% of the operator hours will be affected,” they explain. The data contained information on trucking shipments and the operator hours required to fulfill those shipments.

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Everything you want to know about shareholder management

Strategy Driven

Public companies can have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual and institutional shareholders, like mutual fund companies, pension funds, or hedge funds. Now, these shareholders play a crucial role in the business’s financing, operations, governance, and control aspects. Tips on how to manage shareholders efficiently.

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Keep On Truckin’? The Future Of The Haulage Industry

Strategy Driven

Because so many of the modern approaches to the any industry is hedging its bets on automation, and with the advent of driverless trucks on the horizon, the average truck driver is, naturally, very concerned about their earning potential. As it stands, the industry looks like it’s going to operate in the same capacity as it ever did.

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Could WikiLeaks Expose Your Corporate Brain?

Harvard Business Review

It is a risk to business operations and profitability. And sophisticated hedge funds that employ armies of programmers to come up with anything that can give them an edge would have a field day searching for signs of strength or weakness or for any talk of upcoming deals. government has been opened for all to explore.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Harvard Business Review

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). Because the attack was spotted early, the whole mess could have been avoided.