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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business.

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How to Use the Latest Methods to Benefit All Stakeholders of The Company

Joseph Lalonde

Additionally, investing in employee development allows businesses to stay ahead of the competition by providing their staff with the latest knowledge and skills. Finally, investing in employees helps promote an ethical workplace culture within a company. ultimately improving the public image for investors who want long-term success.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together.

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Hired by the Data, Fired by the Data

Harvard Business Review

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." Hiring Technology' They want to make cars that make drivers better. "Psssst.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. Over the past three centuries, the spread of industrial technologies gradually weakened Britain while stimulating the United States. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s