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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Equipment leasing can help you gear up for construction projects on Anchorage’s two active military bases.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. The change will become invisible.

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Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Harvard Business Review

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. The first day of the conference was devoted to volunteering.

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What Leaders Need To Do To Successfully Resolve A Crisis

Tanveer Naseer

Too many crisis plans focus on external issues and the media rather than providing a simple, sensible, constructive, achievable response strategy. Crisis response is a management responsibility driven by a simple, sensible, constructive, positive, and clearly achievable strategy. But one more critical component was needed.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime. The point is that the outcome you select for your algorithm will define it.