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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Do the political, racial, and social experiences that divide us outside of work undermine our contributions on the job? Their silence is often born of a conviction that race, like politics, is best discussed elsewhere. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions.

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