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Designing a Responsible AI Program? Start with this Checklist

Harvard Business

The results are predictable: inefficient and difficult-to-scale efforts at managing AI’s ethical, reputational, and legal risks; wasted resources; and slowed innovation. 3) Have you designed RAI metrics, such as KPIs and OKRs? 2) Are your RAI’s values clearly connected to procedures?

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have emerged as critical tools for companies to measure and communicate their sustainability efforts. These metrics are increasingly influencing business decision-making and thus shaping corporate reputation in a way that impacts customer loyalty and financial performance.

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Ethical Frameworks for AI Aren’t Enough

Harvard Business

You need to be able translate your principles into metrics your team can use.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

Ethics 133
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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Ethical behavior has to be led by example, and promoting people who ignore ethics when expedient for them tells everyone that the company wants results and it does not really care how they are obtained.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

Fourth, evaluating “scholarship” primarily by counting professors’ “A” journal publications also could encourage academics to engage in questionably ethical research practices in order to produce results that will be accepted by these journals. What would these things look like in practice?

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends. Ethical Selling and Integrity Transparency , honesty, accountability , and trust are the currency of modern sales. Nothing erodes trust faster than overpromising or misrepresenting.

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