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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has recruited SAS programmers who have executed well-defined analyses of clinical trials in a standardized, efficient manner. It will increasingly help government health agencies, payers, and providers to make decisions about such issues as drug discovery, patient access, and marketing.

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