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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business

“You’re not giving others the opportunity to grow and develop strength and breadth.” Playing favorites also dents your own professional development. Maybe you’re both fans of the same hockey team or you both like foreign films. Including Natalie in the pitch gave her an opportunity to grow and develop.

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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. In Hong Kong Hanson Robotics is developing robots with human features. Take, for example, Robyn Ewing, who used to develop and pitch TV scripts to film studios in Hollywood.

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Sex, Power, and the Systems That Enable Men Like Harvey Weinstein

Harvard Business

In experiments in which one group of people is randomly assigned to a condition of power, people in the ”powerful” group are prone to two shortcomings: They develop empathy deficits and are less able to read others’ emotions and take others’ perspectives. Stockbyte/Getty Images.

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