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Jun 2023
24m 11s

Making Investments in AI: Samsung’s Hina...

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
About this episode
Hina Dixit’s interest in supporting people and solving problems has its roots in her family’s call office business, where she helped people place telephone calls when she was growing up in India. Later, after earning her bachelor’s degree in computer science, she was quickly recruited into the tech space, where her problem-solving and customer service skills ... Show More
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