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An optimistic nudge can turn an investor to the green side
Can optimistic framing drive the institutional investment shift needed to address climate change?
Board games at Disney, the fight of the figureheads
Disney’s star-studded board faces activist investor pressure, but do the celebrity directors have the right expertise? What’s the implication for other companies facing activist shareholders?
Fairness control for risky artificial intelligence decision making
Exploring the balance between AI decision-making and human ethics leads to a critical question: How can we ensure fairness in AI’s life-altering decisions?
Are we there yet? Australia’s bumpy road to SDG 4, achieving quality education
With a robust education system, why does Australia falter on delivering equitable, quality learning for every student?
The ABC behind successful teamwork
With teamwork as the secret sauce for service excellence, is identifying and cultivating the right blend of teamwork mechanisms the special ingredient to transform customer satisfaction into profits?
Is Now and Then really a Beatles song? The fab four always used technology to create new music
The Beatles have released a new track – using new technology to strip Lennon’s vocals out of an old demo casette tape. Will this be part of Beatles canon?
AI chatbots are coming to your workplace but are not necessarily coming for your job
Chatbots are proving to be productive and useful but they can be unreliable and make mistakes.
Confronting ageing: the talk Australia has to have
Australian society will be reshaped as its population ages, it needs to have some confronting conversations about ageing and how it pays the inevitable cost.
Technology is changing the lives of female lawyers, in ways that are bad as well as good
A new survey finds working from home is removing barriers for women, but also blurring the barrier between work and the “safe space” of home.
Your car is watching you. The implications are profound and immediate
The issue of privacy breaches by car manufacturers is often overlooked.
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The future of generative AI
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The future of seafood with Aryé Elfenbein
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ChatGPT and generative AI
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