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6 Ways Green Businesses Make a Difference

Women on Business

Green is here to stay , and if you want your business to succeed in the 21st century, I believe that you must take steps to encourage your company to become more socially responsible, more ethical, more sustainably-minded (measurably so), and more focused on reducing, reusing, and recycling. Customers speak and big companies listen.

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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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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Paramedics go to villages, screen patients, transport them back to the hub hospital, measure their vitals, have tests performed, prepare the patients for surgery, deliver postsurgical care in the ward, transport them back to the village, and provide follow- up care. Upskill employees.

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Leading People in an Anxious World

Harvard Business Review

In that case, our firm settled on a compromise where people use discretion in their travel to and from work, but the office is open. This is especially true when public transportation has been canceled, or when family dynamics factor into individual decision making.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

Why travel to a supermarket for the monthly big shop if you can buy it online and have it delivered? Blindly transporting a retail concept across international borders is seldom a recipe for success. Ethics Global business Retail' And of course, online shopping is the other big trend that started at the turn of the century.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

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. A time traveler going back to the dawn of the 20 th century would arrive with dire warnings. In our bail case, much of the effort went into finding a “natural experiment” to evaluate the tool.