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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., Use technology to identify and address barriers. All of the RFID tags are “passive technology,” meaning that the individual tags don’t need power. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Consider this object lesson from marketing.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. And finally, unlike the Minority Report movie, our predictions in the workplace are nowhere close to perfect. Human resources Information & technology Talent management'

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Cyber Security Depends on Education

Harvard Business Review

Its report stressed not only that the current pool of security-educated graduates and practitioners falls far short of demand, but also that "it could take up to 20 years to address the skills gap.". See our recent report here: Cybersecurity Education for the Next Generation.) Education IT management Information & technology'

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

In some sciences, progress can be measured by finding answers to questions, not merely reporting significant effects. At the same time, it is long past time for the field to have a serious conversation where their data comes from, and the ethics of using big data. But how do we evaluate this research? do nice guys finish last?).

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

It's built on a set of institutions crafted in and for the industrial age — like annual and quarterly reports. Four times a year, boardrooms publish updates to their accounts, and once a year, a hefty report explaining and discussing them. Hence, stocks froth up and down before and after earnings report releases.

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