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projects rather than purely increasing patenting. April 2014 Article Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs By: Adam Waytz and Michael I. Norton Technological innovations have produced robots capable... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
disaster. Niinami’s managers tracked down staff members by foot, securing them housing in hotels, finding supplies for displaced workers, and assuring franchisees whose stores were destroyed that they didn’t need to worry about finances.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
be displaced in large numbers. Those job losses will be partially offset by job gains for machine learning specialists and emerging jobs like... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
mitigate via duties and taxes or offer short term support to displaced workers but (it is) far better to come to grips with where your country has real sustainable global advantages. Many of those America once had are gone ” Doug Kinsey... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
in 2013, Hilton noted a lack of job opportunities in renewable energy. So, he went into management consulting and then a software company, before landing at Tesla in 2017. The culture was challenging but “It was the most exciting clean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
into the physical landscape. Challenging the mainstream historical consensus, Keen presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny. He reveals how, despite being displaced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
‘Your tribal corn.’” Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story later told in the 2016 documentary Seed. At the time, Keen was serving as a representative on the Cherokee National... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
expensive natural disasters risk the planet on which we depend, and are already triggering immense geopolitical ramifications and population displacement amid costs to human health, food security, and water availability. Weigh that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
says. How is the Syrian refugee crisis different from those we’ve seen in the past? Kristin Fabbe: People just didn’t expect the Syrian refugee crisis to go on as long as it has and to have reached the magnitude of displacement that has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
phenomena—and make meaningful predictions in rapidly changing global markets. In particular, Dafna gravitated toward questions related to the challenges new automation and digital technologies pose to job security and businesses.... View Details
- Profile
Nneka Ezeigwe
attracts about 1,300 people each year. I’m excited to use this network to inspire and work with people who share a similar vision, so that the increasing stories of growth and optimism will absolutely displace the negative stories that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
clearances for the government job he thought was waiting for him. DeFehr instead decided to attend HBS and join the family business, Palliser Furniture. He has now been a fixture at Palliser for more than 50 years. He was CEO of the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
with the division of British-ruled India into two independent countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. It resulted in the displacement of an estimated 15 million people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands—some... View Details
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
of job displacement and the fairness of the systems themselves. As IBM’s work shows, machine learning models can inherit and amplify human bias if the training data lacks representation or context. This can... View Details