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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

Will Wolf, the Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Development said that even if employees are not interested in the offered roles, “they are blown away that we’re going out of our way to try to find them something interesting and new.”. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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There’s No Such Thing as Anonymous Data

Harvard Business Review

Guaranteeing anonymity (that is, the removal of PII) in exchange for being able to freely collect and use data — a bread-and-butter marketing policy for everyone from app makers, to credit card companies — might not be enforceable if anonymity can be hacked. million people, all of which had been scrubbed of any PII.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead?

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How 'Aaron's Law' Is Good for Business

Harvard Business Review

Freedom of contract, however, proved inconvenient when mass markets arose, and companies needed to do business the same way with millions of customers at once. Handy as this hack was in the age of mass marketing, it has become a massive source of friction for everybody interacting with services on the internet today.