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The Ethics Conversation We’re Not Having About Data

Harvard Business Review

Besides engineers, software developers, and product managers, the burgeoning community of data scientists are also complicit in developing the concepts, algorithms, and software to enable the deception. This scandal may seem irrelevant to those who disdain the site’s shady business model, but you really should be paying attention.

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Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, Schulz is out to prove the power of a different kind of business model — one that, in his words, "balances profit with social responsibility.". Over the next two years, as the company expanded at a blinding rate, its business went into something of a freefall. In 2000, he stepped down as CEO of Starbucks.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business Review

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. You can systematically examine your business model to find its points of vulnerability to information leakage. Someone gets talked into giving up info or doing something they should not.

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain: Revving the Engine of Sustained Global Prosperity and Social Value. Inside-Out Transformation: A Hybrid Business Model for a Converging World. Valuing Nature: How Responsible Water Use Sustains Business, Communities and Ecosystems. Story by John Baldzic. Hack by Valeria Budinich.

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Switzerland Remains The Most Innovative Country In The World

The Horizons Tracker

Foremost among these are ethical challenges, whether in terms of genetic engineering that is still at a nascent stage, or the growing use of artificial intelligence in health and medicine. Despite the investment, the report highlights a number of challenges facing the sector. Healthcare challenges. Innovation leaders.

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Two thought-provoking perspectives on the “crisis of capitalism”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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