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## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 37 — a037

# Ben Rand

**Role in this source:** Author / narrating voice. Ben Rand is the writer who reports and frames [[entity-alex-chan|Alex Chan]]'s research for a management audience in this Harvard Business Review / HBS Working Knowledge piece. He appears in the source's `speakers` list as an authorial voice rather than a subject of study.

**Profile:** A writer associated with Harvard Business School editorial channels (HBS Working Knowledge), covering faculty research for practitioner readers. He does not advance original claims in this source; his contribution is the synthesis, sequencing, and framing of Chan's findings — the executive-summary thesis, the section "*Sometimes, people don't want to know*," and "*How to Use Explainable AI Responsibly*."

**Attributed contributions to this vault:** No standalone concepts, claims, or quotes are attributed to Rand in the extraction; all substantive assertions trace to [[entity-alex-chan|Alex Chan]] and [[entity-preference-for-explanations-paper|his working paper]]. This entity is emitted for speaker completeness so cross-vault tooling can resolve every named voice in the source. His role is acknowledged as the article's author/editor at [[entity-harvard-business-school-d9|Harvard Business School]].