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Jan 2024
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Imagine This...: Peer into Possible Futu...

Boston Consulting Group BCG
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What would you have done differently if you had anticipated the likelihood of a global pandemic or the explosion of generative AI? Spend time with BCG’s editor in chief, our conversational AI agent GENE, and BCG experts as they focus on what could lie ahead for our world—and how you should prepare your business today



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