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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The higher one rises in an organization, the more one must be a generalist.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. An examination of the telecom industry , for example, shows that the analytics leaders have posted three to five times higher returns on their big data investment than the typical telecom company. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

Intelligent technologies are increasingly delivering greater value for less money. Empowering smart machines to — pun intended — live up to their potential may well become the essential new 21st-century leadership skill. Smart, quasi-autonomous robots and machines are replacing humans in workplaces all over the world.

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