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Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
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The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs
Companies need a better understanding of how employees reach unethical decisions.
Todd Haugh
AI & Machine Learning
Ethics Should Precede Action in Machine Intelligence
A featured excerpt from The Mathematical Corporation by Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern.
Theodore Kinni
Data & Data Culture
Balance Efficiency With Transparency in Analytics-Driven Business
For companies relying on algorithms in daily transactions, transparency is a difficult issue.
Sam Ransbotham
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.
Sam Ransbotham
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.
Paul Daugherty
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.
Bidhan L. Parmar and R. Edward Freeman
Data & Data Culture
Exploring the Ethical Limits of App Design
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
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.
Sam Ransbotham
Data & Data Culture
Secrets in the Age of Data
Secrets are a casualty of analytical prowess, and companies have new incentives to act honorably.
Sam Ransbotham
Ethics
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.
MIT Sloan Management Review
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.
José Carlos Marques and Henry Mintzberg
Ethics
Is Your Company Addicted to Value Extraction?
Is your company focused on creating value — or on siphoning it off from others?
Paul Strebel and Salvatore Cantale
Ethics
Combining Purpose With Profits
Several organizing principles can help companies sustain both profitability and a sense of purpose.
Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss and Siegwart Lindenberg
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.
By Nathan T. Washburn and Donald Lange
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Making Money Is Not Enough
The authors, including the Tata Group’s former chairman, say companies need “a deeper purpose.”
Ratan Tata, Stuart L. Hart, Aarti Sharma and Christian Sarkar
Ethics
The Benefits of Combining Data With Empathy
Optimizing processes only takes companies so far. Success requires applying data with compassion.
Ritu Agarwal and Peter Weill
Ethics
Ethical Quandary in the Age of Big Data: Avoid Creepiness
There isn’t yet a common vocabulary for discussions around the ethical use of big data.
Renee Boucher Ferguson
