Losing your job may feel like a permanent setback. But it''s not.

The case is centered around the 2021 Telangana Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) elections, held against the backdrop of a known unknown: the COVID-19 pandemic. While the project planning was diligent, the team faced several unknown unknowns during the execution of the project. The case study enables readers to create a framework for risk management and associated strategies within the project management context.

Social media companies couldn''t exist in their current form without content moderation. But while these jobs are essential, they''re often low-paid, emotionally taxing, and extremely stressful - they require exposure to horrific violence, disturbing sexual content, and generally the worst of what we see (or don''t see) online. Do they have to be? Sarah T. Roberts, faculty director of the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry .....more

It is fall 2022, and open-source AI model company Hugging Face is considering its three areas of priorities: platform development, supporting the open-source community, and pursuing cutting-edge scientific research. As it expands services for enterprise clients, which services should it prioritize? Will these projects be in line with Hugging Face''s volunteer community? Further, Hugging Face decided to remove a model uploaded by a contributor, .....more

Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), a set of software and analytical tools designed for the purpose of wildlife conservation, had demonstrated significant improvements in patrol coverage, with some observed reductions in poaching and contributing to wildlife population growth. Jonathan Palmer, Executive Director of Conservation Technology for the Wildlife Conservation Society, wondered how far to promote the integration of a new predictive .....more

In early 2020, the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world led the most highly affected countries, such as the United States and India, to focus on rapid testing and contact tracing to break the chain of transmission. By August 25, 2020, India had tested nearly 37 million cumulative COVID-19 samples as part of the government''s "Test, Track, Treat" initiative. The efficient allocation of collected swabs with saliva samples to appropriate .....more

Spreadsheet supplement for case W28361.

In August 2017, Concentrix Corporation (CNX) partnered with Photon Life Insurance Company (PLI), a leading insurance provider in India, to support PLI''s customer management service. On February 1, 2018, Mohit Khanna, global operations manager at CNX, undertook a promising task to improve PLI''S customer persistency at minimal operational cost. If all policyholders with an approaching due date were to be called, then the number of .....more

Spreadsheet Supplement for Case W25821 Shylu John is affiliated with Indian Institute of Management Indore. Bhavin J. Shah is affiliated with Indian Institute of Management Indore.