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A game plan for technology companies to actually help save the world

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Working together, people and technology companies can make a lot of progress.Pedro Tavares/Shutterstock.com

Smartphones, computers and social media platforms have become indispensable parts of modern life, but the technology companies that make them and write their software are under siege. In any given week, Facebook or Google or Amazon does...

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