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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP.

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Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong

Harvard Business Review

In his Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle states that it is a fact that “all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good,” but then continues, “What then do we mean by the good?” ” That, in essence, encapsulates the ethical dilemma. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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