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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Whatever the form factor, companies must skillfully manage any future shifts in customer interactions. And then there are ethical challenges.

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Our Biases Undermine Our Colleagues’ Attempts to Be Authentic

Harvard Business

Specifically, according to a human resources manager, dreadlocks “tend to get messy;” therefore, the hairstyle violated the company’s requirement that all employees project “a professional and businesslike image.” By 1799, the fashion landscape was primed for redefinition and adjustments to previous styles.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

Anticipating Change: Understanding the macro environment can help a business anticipate change, take advantage of opportunities and manage potential threats. STEEPLED: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical, and Demographic. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities.

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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never, Ever Date Subordinates

Harvard Business

At 22, I was lonely, living in a new city, and handling the transition from college to the real world in a reluctant fashion. In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. In one study of managers, the ability to identify harassment did not improve among those who received training. But they are deluding themselves.

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Organizational Character and Leadership Development | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

For the last 50 years it has not been fashionable to talk about moral development, yet the subject of moral development is all about being a grown up. Here’s more information about leadership development and ethics. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Career Management.

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Leveling Up: Consulting Skills for an AI-Powered World

Tom Spencer

For example, in a retail setting, let’s say a fashion clothing client wants to understand the purchasing behaviour of their customers. The data analysis may reveal that many customers are looking for sustainable and ethical clothing options.

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Big Data in Marketing – It Is Here To Stay

Tom Spencer

L’Oreal Paris, for instance, uses an algorithm searching Google, YouTube and other networks for user-generated content, trying to determine the next big trends in the beauty and fashion industry. First of all, there are a lot of ethical concerns surrounding the gathering of data.

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