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Analytics for managerial work

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Work in finance, marketing, human resources, and operations increasingly relies on analytics---with more to come.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 4
            April 2019
            136 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3321370
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