Lessons From The Slave Trade And The Holocaust: How Should Today’s Executives Respond To Such Historical Transgressions?

Some multigenerational companies or their predecessors have committed acts in the past that would be anathema today – they invested in or owned slaves, for example, or they were complicit in crimes against humanity. How should today’s executives respond to such historical transgressions? Drawing on her recent book about the

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Artificial Intelligence: Are Executives Just Resisting A New, Unknown, And Still Unproven Technology, Or Their Hesitancy Is Rooted In Something Deeper?

Data-based decisions by AI are almost always based on probabilities (probabilistic versus deterministic). Because of this, there is always a degree of uncertainty when AI delivers a decision. There has to be an associated degree of confidence or scoring on the reliability of the results. It is for this reason

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What Blockchain Executives Think About The Uproar Around Facebook’s Libra

On the week of July 15, 2019, Facebook met in front of a US congressional committee to discuss the tech giant’s ambitious plans of creating a global digital currency named Libra. At the hearing, US congressional staff probed Libra executives as well as notable cryptocurrency experts on the project’s intentions

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