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How Social Media Boosts Polarization

The Horizons Tracker

This predisposition has evolved to facilitate cooperation and survival. During the early stages of the development of learning biases, morally and emotionally charged information held crucial importance. It’s not that the algorithm is designed to disrupt cooperation,” the researchers say. It’s just that its goals are different.

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We Need More “Heart and Soul” in the Age of “Mind and Strength”

Michael Lee Stallard

If I owned that jewelry store I would encourage everyone on the staff to be intentional about developing heart, soul, mind and strength. Heart and soul are important because developing relationship excellence is necessary to sustain task excellence. What do I mean by heart and soul? Many customers can sense this.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

That’s changing fast, of course, as providers are finding that cooperation is as critical to caregiving as cutting edge tests and therapeutics. The paper draws on the broad social capital literature and the toolkit for building social capital developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. But this was not the first time its policies were violated.

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Simple Ways TSA Could Make Customers Happier

Harvard Business Review

Simple Equipment Innovations. The innovation eliminates human labor involved in endlessly transferring bins from the end of the line to the front. The innovation would demonstrate care and concern to the general public, and would make everything easier and faster. Long lines are an advertiser's dream. written on them.

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Google vs. the EU Explains the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. Since the layers communicate using application program interfaces (APIs) provided by vendors operating in the layer below, those vendors that dominate one layer can use their power to control how the layer above develops.