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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Why would you not want an expert available 24/7 when you’re studying? Robots could take over 20 million jobs by 2030, study claims. Image: Pexels.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business

During her training years ago, there would have been a handful of therapy options to consider. This could include specialized staff, such as nurses and junior doctors trained to research and identify clinical trials and therapy options, as well as technology that can automate the search process much as has been done with legal discovery.

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Why You Shouldn’t Swear at Siri

Harvard Business

If adaptive bots learn from every meaningful human interaction they have, then mistreatment and abuse become technological toxins. That undermines enterprise efficiency, productivity, and culture. While not (biologically) alive, these inanimate objects are explicitly trained to anticipate and respond to workplace needs.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Consultants often join straight out of undergraduate or graduate studies, and there are currently over 350 partners managing sensitive client relationships with C-level executives. Corporate and Institutional Banking. Retail and Business Banking. Wealth and Asset Management.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. To try to answer this question, we studied the changes made by 411 leaders of UK academies. Five Types of Leader.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates.