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Apr 2021
29m 57s

Designing a Better Future: Mastercard’s ...

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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JoAnn Stonier can’t deny that her role as chief data officer at Mastercard isn’t easy. Advising the company on the mitigation of current and future risk while guiding her team to think critically about the problems they’re using AI to solve is challenging — but, she says, it’s also fun. In this episode, JoAnn talks with Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh ... Show More
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