Disruption
Why Entrepreneurs Should Care Less About Disrupting and More About Creating
Featured excerpt from WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly.
Ethics
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Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
Ethics
The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs
Companies need a better understanding of how employees reach unethical decisions.
AI & Machine Learning
Ethics Should Precede Action in Machine Intelligence
A featured excerpt from The Mathematical Corporation by Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern.
Data & Data Culture
Balance Efficiency With Transparency in Analytics-Driven Business
For companies relying on algorithms in daily transactions, transparency is a difficult issue.
AI & Machine Learning
Romantic and Rational Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
Managers already struggle to put data to intelligent use; AI may add to their difficulty.
Data & Data Culture
Achieving Trust Through Data Ethics
Success in the digital age requires a new kind of ethical diligence in how companies use data.
AI & Machine Learning
A Code of Ethics for Smart Machines
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethics and the Algorithm
Behind every piece of code that drives our decisions is a human making human judgments about what matters and what does not.
Data & Data Culture
Exploring the Ethical Limits of App Design
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Data & Data Culture
The Ethics of Wielding an Analytical Hammer
Organizations need maturity around analytics, including a better distinction between what “could” and what “should” be done.
Data & Data Culture
Secrets in the Age of Data
Secrets are a casualty of analytical prowess, and companies have new incentives to act honorably.
Corporate Social Responsibility
The 2015 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s winning article is “Combining Purpose With Profits,” by Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg.
Climate Change
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Isn’t a Piece of Cake
Responsible corporate behavior isn’t simply “doing well by doing good.” Six structural changes need to be considered.
Ethics
Is Your Company Addicted to Value Extraction?
Is your company focused on creating value — or on siphoning it off from others?
Corporate Social Responsibility
Combining Purpose With Profits
Several organizing principles can help companies sustain both profitability and a sense of purpose.
Ethics
When Should You Fire Customers?
Letting unprofitable customers go is an option, but so is training them out of expensive behavior.
Climate Change
Does Your Company Seem Socially Irresponsible?
Public perceptions of corporate irresponsibility are shaped in subjective, yet predictable, ways.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Making Money Is Not Enough
The authors, including the Tata Group’s former chairman, say companies need “a deeper purpose.”
Ethics
The Benefits of Combining Data With Empathy
Optimizing processes only takes companies so far. Success requires applying data with compassion.