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source_timestamps: ["byline", "§ Author Bios"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/manage-your-ai-investments-like-a-portfolio"
source_title: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
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## Segment 1 — spine

## Article 61 — a061

# Erik Nelson

> **Type:** Person · **Role in source:** Co-author.

Erik Nelson is one of the four co-authors of the article. No standalone biography is provided in the source; he is credited as a contributing author to the portfolio-management framework presented.

**Contributions to this vault (co-authored):** [[quote-drain-on-resources]] · [[quote-learning-journeys]] · [[quote-bridge-gap]] · and the article's [[framework-three-portfolio-mechanisms]] and [[framework-four-portfolio-stages]].

*Emitted for speaker-completeness/cross-vault deduplication; role acknowledged even though the source supplies no individual bio.*