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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority. Without adequate security awareness and training, people will recklessly open email messages from strangers, click on suspicious links, and take other needless risks. What behaviors are we hoping for?

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. ” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?

Harvard Business

” Nobody wants to produce boring presentations that waste everybody’s time, but they do; nobody wants to train machine learning algorithms that produce misleading predictions, but they will. Crudely put, where active machine learning has people training machines, passive machine learning has machines training people.

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Why Hillary Clinton Gets Interrupted More than Donald Trump

Harvard Business

In one well-documented experiment, described in Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In , Harvard MBA students evaluated the same case study of a successful entrepreneur. First, we need to be aware of these biases and how they operate. Second, we can try to train our brain to make counter-stereotypical associations.

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