Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. This means that ethics is serious business.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

This included clever work on smarter cities which turned IBMs computer expertise to solving complex problems with transport, urban planning, and rebalancing the global economy, and encouraged innovation to support customers in those areas. But that’s about the ethics of the people using the tools of strategy.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased. To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

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. In 2000, he stepped down as CEO of Starbucks.

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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.” ” Hiring for Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But even before we reach that stage, we need to make sure the tool is promising enough to ethically justify testing it in the field. How many of us would trade performance for understandability in our own lives by, say, giving up our current automobile with its mystifying internal combustion engine for Fred Flintstone’s car?

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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.

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