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source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/manage-your-ai-investments-like-a-portfolio"
source_title: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
tags: ["c-suite", "business-value"]
related: ["claim-portfolio-elevates-ai"]
speaker: "Faisal Hoque, Erik Nelson, Tom Davenport and Paul Scade"
speakers: ["Faisal Hoque", "Erik Nelson", "Tom Davenport", "Paul Scade"]
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sourceTitle: "Manage Your AI Investments Like a Portfolio"
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# Bridging Possibility and Reality

> "This approach bridges the gap between technical possibility and business reality: it elevates AI decisions to the C-suite level where they belong, ensures continuous executive sponsorship through structured stages, and provides the transparency needed for leaders to make informed trade-offs between competing priorities."
> — [[entity-faisal-hoque]], [[entity-erik-nelson]], [[entity-tom-davenport]] & [[entity-paul-scade]]

The article's closing payoff statement. Grounds [[claim-portfolio-elevates-ai]].