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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI): How to Establish a Human-Centric Approach

Experience to Lead

From virtual assistants like Siri to self-driving cars, we can now teach machines to solve complex problems with the power of computer engineering and robust data sets. Simple AI will respond with outcomes which have been pre-determined by an engineer.

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What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters.

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Pinterest, at the end of 2012, had about 100 employees with 40 million users, and this made it the largest social media platform in by number of users per employee. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Policy makers can and should do more to align the incentives of companies and workers, for example by providing tax incentives for profit-sharing schemes , by providing health benefits, by hiring new employees, or by linking workplace practices to government procurement and financing programs.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Social media spending? DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened. Wellness checkups?

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