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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Growing, or Not, in an Age of Permanent Volatility

Harvard Business Review

Usually in a period where companies are forecasting growth, pricing power is a critical component. This creates an environment in which successful companies must have operating models that are dramatically more dynamic and able to shift more readily to capitalize on growth opportunities (or to cost-effectively weather periods of decline).

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. billion a decade later. Now the country is at a crossroads. Years of economic mismanagement.