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What Is Responsible Computing?

Harvard Business Review

For businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns. For each they provide several KPIs that leaders should focus on.

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Preventing Another Bangladesh Tragedy: Three Ways to Transform Supply Chain Ethics

Harvard Business Review

So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods. They aren''t going to be adopted anytime soon. But maybe they will help advance the debate a notch.

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

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. For some researchers, that spreadsheet could have been an ethically questionable window into contemporary corporate practices.

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation in which different technologies, such as genomics, materials science, and robotics , rise to the fore. Our world has been thoroughly transformed by digital technology.