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Using Social Media To Help Sustainability Research

The Horizons Tracker

However, the potential public advantages of social media data science are hindered by several obstacles, as indicated by a new report from an international research team. The report advocates for replacing this vicious cycle with a “virtuous cycle.” Achieving the U.N.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Whether it’s a fresher role or one that requires experience, Qualee reports that it takes a new hire approximately eight months to reach their full productivity.

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Using AI For The Good Of Society

The Horizons Tracker

The latest to add its thoughts to the mix is a new report from Qatar University, which highlights how unregulated AI is a significant threat to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Throughout the last few years, various austere bodies have highlighted the need for AI to develop in ways that benefits all of society.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Most of the times people won’t mind or won’t care….but

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

A recent survey on easing racial tensions at work by the Center for Talent Innovation found that “The workplace is one of few settings where we commonly interact across racial and ethnic lines.” Sixty-three percent also reported that people are more civil at work than outside of it. Do not tolerate incivility.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

Following a long stretch of fawning coverage from business and technology journalists, The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2015 that the company’s flagship blood-testing technology was a near-total failure. And it’s also the reason that academic journals exclude storytelling technique from scientific reports.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Attorney General Eric Holder. But Archive.org kept a copy.