Dr. Nathan Colaner is a senior instructor in the Department of Management, director of the Bridge MBA program and director of Albers’s Business Analytics program. Colaner’s PhD is in philosophy, with a focus on ethics and epistemology in general. But his subsequent MBA and business analytics degree led him to focus on three areas within applied ethics: organizational ethics, data ethics, and the ethics of machine learning and artificial intelligence. His recent research is on the ethical, technical, and epistemological aspects of machine learning, specifically regarding . As a teacher, he focuses on the ways that business organizations can create a nurturing environment for their employees, the ethical and legal implications of data use, and responsible business uses of artificial intelligence. As a consultant, he works directly with private and governmental organizations to implement ethical data and machine learning solutions.
