Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. However, social psychology tells us that something other than cost-benefits analyses may be happening when people choose to play followership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Addressing those vulnerabilities will require coordination across a large number of technology service providers and other companies that could catch or spread an AI infection to others, regardless of who is at fault. AI Insurance Products and Services. AI International Protocols.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

That work brought me back, as so many things do, to Coase''s early writings — in particular his two searingly critical yet insightful essays, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960). Yet "The Problem of Social Cost" has proven to be one of the most-cited articles in the history of economics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The next question was where to establish the software center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

— dismissal of perfectly profitable innovations because they're not digital, technological, or fashionable reveals more about elitist snobbery than market substance. While automobiles embody many of the most sophisticated technologies around, innovative cup holders influence mindshare. Airy — dare I say arrogant?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Technology Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. As part of your conversation with analysts, ask about the costs and benefits of these options. But you can take steps to mitigate these costs and risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

We''re not a technology firm." "We The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). Too many firms are easily persuaded by the cost savings.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered. Practice frugality. Don’t throw money at a need.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Technology constitutes less than 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture. Calculating Each Organization’s High Costs. 7 Categories of High Costs. Repairing ethically wrong actions. Each year, one-third of the U.S. Poor controls.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

I admit that when Microsoft unveiled its holographic computing engine at its Windows 10 event last week, I didn’t pay much attention. They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. So, realistically, you have to show progress before the mid-year cost cutting exercise.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

Maybe you could get 20% off the registration cost with your AARP membership. This new business model will require a different model of leadership development – one that pays more attention to ethics, the environment, how decisions impact the community and society, and human rights. Building Block leadership development programs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Compared to investing millions (or billions) of dollars into more social programs or police, the cost of statistically analyzing administrative datasets that already exist is next-to-nothing. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Twin Debates.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." We want to make cars that are better than drivers," says one Google engineer. Hiring Technology'

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