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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. One can certainly make the case that we are falling into an abyss.

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Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong

Harvard Business Review

need to abide by GAAP accounting standards, which rely on strict rules, while those operating in Europe follow IFRS accounting standards, which are driven by broad principles. Should insurance companies have a say in how the algorithms are coded? This is not, of course, a completely new problem. For example, firms operating in the U.S.

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