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Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

How the sports legend and civil rights icon made decisions throughout his career to leave a lasting impact on the world.

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Daily Crunch: Startup says it has received $1M in preorders for its $60K hydrofoiling personal watercraft

TechCrunch

Sports on Amazon : The tech giant wants to continue its march into broadcasting live sports, adding to its current lineup of Thursday Night Football, Premier League soccer and the like, Aisha reports. Well, Kyle wrote about a study that found code-generating AI can introduce security vulnerabilities. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Dubai-based GMG invests in next-gen tech to improve customer needs

CIO

In a recent PwC study, retail CEOs in the region cited key factors to achieve this being their ability to manage faster delivery times, support easier product returns, and balance stock volumes. “It It would be naïve to underestimate the pandemic’s influence on many companies’ digital transformation,” says Sunil Nair, Group CIO at GMG. “In

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.) Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI.

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CIO Darlene Taylor’s formula for success: Listen, drive, care

CIO

A native of Detroit, she studied mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, and since entering the automotive industry, she has led internal teams through complex technology initiatives. She also uses group chats generously. And I had the opportunity to enhance my cyber skills in the process.”

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Fitness ring maker Oura raises $100M

TechCrunch

With the pandemic bringing professional sports to a screeching halt in 2020, a number of major leagues have adopted the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. The company has also been making a major push into health research courtesy of UCSF, which has published peer-review studies around the ring’s temperature monitor.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration. “But