What Happens When “MoreyBall” Encountered Repeated Games
MoreyBall analytics works for Houston Rockets and changes the way the NBA is played. However, does it really help them in the playoffs?
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Googlegeist – An inconvenient truth
Googlegeist is a great initiative to gather feedback and seek the truth, but two questions remain: (a) can we trust the truth from this survey?; and (b) does this truth lead to meaningful resolutions?
FemTech: Women’s Heath, or Women Surveillance?
Ovia Health says their product can minimize healthcare spending and help employers best plan for maternity leave, but what are the consequences of sharing such intimate data with an employer?
Humu Nudges: Nifty Reminders or Lazy Leadership?
Humu, a human resources consultancy founded by the former Head of HR at Google, uses behavioral economics ‘nudges’ to prompt better leadership. But is it necessary?
AI in People Analytics: Rhetoric and Snake Oil
“AI” has become a buzzword in people analytics. To be sure, AI is indeed a powerful technology. Yet, as with many organizational practices that ascend to buzzword status, its promise has exceeded its potential. Sometimes it’s even sold as a mythical snake oil.
Your boss is your laptop: Management Systematization at Bridgewater Associates
Are we approaching a time when day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—will be guided by software that understands individuals and teams better than your top ranked managers?
Employee Monitoring at Barclays
In early 2020, Barclays launched a pilot program to more closely monitor employee activity, giving managers real-time reporting on how productive (or unproductive) employees were throughout the day. This pilot was met with immediate backlash from employees and advocacy groups, comparing it to Big Brother, and it was abandoned very shortly after launch. So what was Barclays missing here, and could this have been done better?
Trusted Partners or the Machine?
In our first class this semester, back in the halcyon days of our pre-quarantine innocence, Professor Polzer posed a question: Are employees trusted partners in a mission or cogs in a machine? Though we have discussed and debated, pondered and premised for almost a full semester now, these authors feel no less conflicted as to this central tension of people analytics than we did almost three months ago.
A healthy use of data, or an unhealthy breach of privacy?
Health insurance plans meet user data – but is such use of our data a healthy development for society?
Citizens the real boss? Thoughts on open-source government attendance data
Reactions to the Indian government’s decision to make government attendance data public.