Author: Phill
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Strategic Cost Cutting in a Downturn: Where to Trim and Where to Invest
This article was co-written with Anush Naghshineh, Jenny Tsao, and David Turner. Introduction: The Danger of Sweeping Cuts During an Inflationary Downturn When the economy slows, unemployment rises, and prices increase, many companies often resort to making sweeping budget cuts. However, this broad and formulaic approach can undermine your competitive capability when you need it…
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Pivot to Growth: Small Businesses Might Be Your Recession Hiring Haven
Executive Impact Services articles – ideation, research, and collaboration between Jenny Tsao, Anush Naghshineh, and David Turner, MBA Introduction: Looking beyond Fortune 500 hiring freezes When economic headwinds intensify, headlines about major corporate layoffs and hiring freezes dominate business news. Tech giants like Meta, IBM, Google, and Microsoft; financial leaders such as Goldman Sachs, Citi,…
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Inside an AI Brain
Anthropic has been doing research for a while now on what happens inside the “mind” of their LLM Claude. They recently released two papers that peel back the curtain a bit on the LLM “thought process”. The folks at Anthropic came up with a way called “circuit tracing” to see how Claude actually thinks. To…
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Is another barrier to LLM adoption in the enterprise disappearing?
One of the hesitations many enterprises have had about using pre-trained LLM models has been driven by concerns of liability from copyright infringement claims. Many LLMs are trained using a broad array of information that is accessible via the internet. This often includes sites with copyrighted materials such as articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more.…
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Let GenAI Do the Shopping!
It turns out that more and more people are doing exactly this. In a recent post by the folks at Adobe Analytics, they found: You can check out the post from Adobe Research here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/03/17/adobe-analytics-traffic-to-us-retail-websites-from-generative-ai-sources-jumps-1200-percent So, is GenAI doing your shopping yet?
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Talent Without Borders: Why Smart PE Firms Are Creating Cross-Portfolio Career Opportunities
This article is written in collaboration with Jenny Tsao and Anush Naghshineh. Introduction Private equity (PE) firms are discovering something important: the people working at their portfolio companies might be their most valuable asset. Instead of treating each company’s workforce separately, forward-thinking PE firms are now creating talent pools that span all their companies. This…
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Does GenAI Really Boost Productivity?
Is GenAI actually useful in the workplace? Researchers at the Harvard Business School just published a study that seems to answer the question with a solid YES. The study, conducted between May and July last year, examined the use of GenAI at Proctor & Gamble. It analyzed the work output of over 775 randomly selected…
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Fun with AI
Sometimes, AI can be fun… Meet Billy, the Fishinator. https://lnkd.in/eueJhuJZ
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AI-Guided Ecosystem Development Creating Synergistic Networks Across Portfolio Companies
This article is written in collaboration with Jenny Tsao and Anush Naghshineh. Introduction The Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) suggests that a small percentage of investments often generates substantial returns. In short, 80% of returns come from 20% of investments. If this concept applies to Private Equity (PE), how can PE firms modify the historical model…
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AI-Powered Due Diligence and Acquisition: Transforming Investment Evaluation
This article is written in collaboration with Anush Naghshineh, Jenny Tsao, and David Turner. The investment landscape has always rewarded those who can identify potential value ahead of the market. Whether it’s spotting undervalued mature businesses or recognizing tomorrow’s breakout startups, this competitive edge increasingly belongs to private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms…