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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Societies must constantly strive to ensure that novel ideas in government, business, education, and every other realm are wedded to strong ethical values. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. 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. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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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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