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1) The power of one: how I found the strength to tell the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on "the Facebook Files," Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of pages of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the media. She was hailed at President Biden's first State of the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. They were assisted by a cast of controversial characters, including conservative provocateur Charles Johnson and billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel. The app can scan a blurry portrait, and,...
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Español
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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English
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The aim of The Benefits of the New Economy is to point out the causes of today's economic turmoil and how it can be solved. The road toward solution lies not in any remedy from the past. Rather, it lies with a society where all support each other in mutual guarantee. This creates a social environment of care and consideration, and the understanding that we will rise or fall together, because we are all interdependent.
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Español
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Desde hace muchos años se ha defendido que en una sociedad en cambio, la cultura es el horizonte colectivo de la moral y, por ende, el único contexto donde la ética tiene cabida. En ese nuevo horizonte, progresivamente plural y globalizado, el intelectual adoctrinado y la política no deben tener en absoluto un protagonismo exclusivo en la toma de decisiones, y menos todavía en la valoración de contenidos de cara a la gestión pública del conocimiento....
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English
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Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, and shows that while the marketplace has delivered huge advantages to humanity, it has also abandoned over a billion people to extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, and ravaged the environment. How do we reconcile...
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Español
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Junto con otros dilemas morales y cuestiones relacionadas con la responsabilidad social corporativa, los conflictos de interés son uno de los desafíos más comunes que se enfrentan en el lugar de trabajo. El libro se dedica a examinar la ética detrás de los conflictos de interés en el contexto de los negocios, centrándose en los fundamentos de la filosofía moral que informan nuestra comprensión de la ética.
A través de su escritura clara...
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English
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Get the Summary of Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Hoan Ton-That, a Vietnamese-Australian tech enthusiast, found his passion in computers and music after facing bullying in Melbourne. His tech ventures in San Francisco caught investor Naval Ravikant's eye, leading to a move to the Bay Area. Despite a scandal with ViddyHo, Ton-That continued developing apps and became interested...
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Español
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El libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos es el resultado de más de cuarenta años de investigación y trabajo docente en América Latina, principalmente en el Perú. Ha sido desarrollado a partir de un análisis de la realidad que nuestros profesionales en las ciencias económicas y administrativas enfrentan en su vida diaria. Pretende responder a las inquietudes de los que desean respetar y hacer respetar valores y principios morales en el ejercicio...
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Existe un amplio consenso según el cual los mercados son la forma más eficiente de organizar la producción y la distribución de bienes en economías complejas, el remedio mágico para todos los males de la burocracia y el control estatal. Sin embargo, a muchos les resulta inadmisible que el criterio de la oferta y la demanda se aplique por igual tanto al comercio de automóviles o indumentaria como al trabajo infantil, los órganos humanos, los...
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Deutsch
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Treffen Sie Maßnahmen zum Hinweisgeberschutz!
Mit 17. Dezember 2023 muss jedes österreichische Unternehmen mit mehr als 50 Mitarbeitenden ein internes System implementiert haben, über das Verstöße im Unternehmen gemeldet werden können.
Erfahren Sie alles über Whistleblowing und erhalten Sie Antworten auf all Ihre Fragen mit diesem kompakten Leitfaden! Wer sind Whistleblower? Welche Meldekanäle soll es geben? Wie stellen Sie die Vertraulichkeit...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment...
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English
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The author is a faculty member of Indiana Wesleyan University and is a lay minister at the Wesleyan Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
The book includes sixty devotionals on business topics you would find in an MBA degree. The subject areas are general business, accounting, economics, finance, and statistics. Dr. Snider is a professor and has worked in information technology for four decades. His passion is to share experience and how business and...
14) Ética para directivos y consejeros: Cómo construir empresas excelentes y socialmente responsables
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Español
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La gravedad y extensión de la crisis que estamos sufriendo, desde finales de 2007, debería servir para repensar el sentido de la economía y sus fines y en concreto la función de las empresas en la sociedad, y encontrar soluciones justas y duraderas. El subtítulo del libro expresa significativamente su contenido y finalidad: Cómo construir empresas excelentes y socialmente responsables.
En esta línea, el autor pone especial énfasis en el modo...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The experiment showed that the audience was unable to see the difference between the two tabletops, because they were exactly the same. The speaker went on to explain how the eye receives, the brain registers, and the mind interprets visual information.
#2 The visual illusion called Turning the Tables demonstrates the success of a visual system that has adapted to...
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Français
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Les administrations publiques ont longtemps maintenu un contrle strict de l'information essentielle à leur fonctionnement. Contre-pied moderne de cette réalité, la transparence, au centre des pratiques de bonne gouvernance, est devenue une exigence légale dans de nombreux pays. Ce changement de paradigme a fortement modifié les mécanismes de gestion des organisations publiques.
Ce livre porte précisément sur ce changement, auquel s'est ajoutée...
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Español
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Vivimos un tiempo de confusión, saturación, agitación, superficialidad, confrontación y polarización, sin rumbo, sin norte y necesitados de un sentido que no sabemos dónde encontrar. En los últimos siglos, hemos construido una sociedad saturada de bienes materiales y extremadamente financiarizada convirtiendo nuestra existencia en una carrera con poca conciencia de que vamos "hacia ninguna parte".
El incremento de inquietudes y necesidades...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Monica Padman, who left college with two degrees in hand, moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actor and comedian. She eventually became a trusted employee of actress Kristen Bell, and when Bell and her husband, actor Dax Shepard, asked her to work for them full-time, she was understandably reluctant.
#2 There are three different categories of contributors...
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Businesses around the world are facing rapidly changing economic and social situations. Business leaders and managers must be ready to respond and adapt in new, innovative ways. The authors of this groundbreaking book argue that business people must adopt a 'holonomic' way of thinking, a dynamic and authentic understanding of the relationships within a business system, and an appreciation of the whole. Complexity and chaos are not to be feared, but...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 If you're the kind of high-achieving, goal-oriented person who reads books like this, you're probably used to running into obstacles. Most people quit, but they don't quit successfully.
#2 There are two things that make Hannah Smith a quitter: being extremely smart and focused, and also a lot of other things. You can't try to do everything, especially if you want...
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