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Five ways technology will change the mining, oil and gas industries

May 8, 2017

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Mauro F. Guillén

Anthony L. Davis Director of The Lauder Institute, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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