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Do We Hold Algorithms To Higher Standards Than Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

Recently the World Economic Forum pondered whether organizations should be hiring an AI Ethics Officer to ensure that the algorithms being developed made fair and ethical decisions. “This could deepen existing structural injustices, skew power balances further, threaten human rights and limit access to resources and information.”

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. Daniel Kahneman. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. A key to developing curiosity is inquiry. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith.

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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Innovation National competitiveness Education Healthcare Pharmaceuticals North America'