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How to Think for Yourself When Algorithms Control What You Read

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. While data scientists, policymakers, and ethics boards work on large-scale, long-term fixes , it’s incumbent on us, as individual agents, to ensure that we find out and learn what we really need. beastfromeast/Getty Images.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. You add product families first, followed by business lines, each time addressing extra customer segments. As this phenomenon repeats itself, the diversified firm is born.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Have you started imagining how cryptocurrencies could be used to shore up your company’s digital security? At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology?

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Does All This Sound Familiar?

Coaching Tip

Back then, capitalism had generated a wave of miraculous changes in everyday life--railroads, electric lights, telephones, automobiles--and raised the over-all standard of living, but it had also opened up a large gap between rich and poor and caused a great deal of suffering, social unrest, corruption, and dislocation.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

. - Allows individuals aged 70 ½ and older who must take RMDs from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to withdraw up to $100,000 and donate to charitable organization. tax on their income (up to $106,000 or so) as opposed to the normal tax of 6.2%. This provision was extended through 2011. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2%