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October 16, 2024

How we used AI to improve course quality by 20%

One common misperception about AI is that it’s only good for making processes quicker. Education Product Lead, Kyra Atekwana, shared how it also improved our content quality by 20%.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
AI
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October 9, 2024

Perplexity AI: What You Need to Know

Perplexity doesn't get as much air time as other AI tools, but its features have the potential to change how you work.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
4 mins
AI
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October 3, 2024

How a Bayer CFO is thinking about AI ROI

Your CFO will want to see your plan for proving ROI before they greenlight your AI initiatives. But what we learned from Bayer CFO, Florian Zirnstein, is that not all CFOs need to see hard numbers to measure success.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 mins
For students
AI
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September 27, 2024

Benchmarking Section’s AI Proficiency

We've talked a lot about the AI proficiency of the broader workforce - but is Section even walking the walk? We ran our own AI Proficiency Survey internally - here's how we did it, what we learned, and how we're measuring ROI.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
AI
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March 3, 2023

Self-assessment: Does your team trust you?

I’m sure you’ve had a manager you didn’t trust. 

Maybe that manager said she valued your time – but then canceled your 1:1 at the last minute because she just had to run out and get a smoothie. 

Maybe he called you out in front of the team for a mistake he made. (Truly an unforgivable offense). 

Whatever it was, you know that once trust is lost, it’s hard to get back...

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
Management
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March 3, 2023

Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you? ‍

Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).

In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.

Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 mins
For students
Product
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February 13, 2025

EY's Global Head of AI: Don’t rush to prove AI ROI

If you feel like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out how to make a bulletproof investment in AI, read on for John Thompson’s take on why you actually need to slow down and stop sweating the ROI.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For companies
AI
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February 4, 2025

Staying silent on AI is almost as bad as banning it

The piece of data from our latest AI Proficiency Report that we can’t stop thinking about: Silence on AI breeds more AI skepticism than an outright AI ban. So if you’ve been gathering your thoughts on AI, now is the time to put them in writing.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
6 mins
For companies
AI

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