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How To Make AI Ethics More Effective

The Horizons Tracker

AI companies have faced public scrutiny in recent times for developing machine learning algorithms that exhibit bias against historically marginalized groups. The research found that these ethics teams faced significant resource constraints and lacked sufficient support from leadership.

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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. To develop a strategy, one has to look at the competition and our team and figure out the difficulties and barriers to “winning the game.”

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

health care system, ranging from expensive imaging for benign medical conditions to routine pre-operative testing before low-risk surgeries like cataract surgery. In the last half decade, however, several new HCV treatments have been developed with cure rates exceeding 90%.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

The peer pressure effect on adoption incentive is an order of magnitude larger than the expected profitability impact of AI, or perception of the impact it has had in recent years. Even if a technology race develops, some companies will adopt rapidly, but others less so—and the benefits of AI will vary accordingly.

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How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing

Harvard Business Review

With new and substantial constraints on what had been largely unregulated data-collection practices, marketers will have to find ways to target digital ads, depending less (or not at all) on hoovering up quantities of behavioral data. Consumers have already seen a range of developments resulting from the forthcoming enforcement of the GDPR.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

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The Real Power of Platforms Is Helping People Self-Organize

Harvard Business Review

Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. We needed to process reams of data using expensive and sophisticated software and computers to predict demand, know the capabilities of each aircraft type, and to understand each work group’s constraints. For others, they may opt to work 12-hour-long days.