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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Ethics Finance Global business' cent per aluminum can. The article is less clear about what brought this on. Morgan in the metals trade?

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The Happiness Advantage: Researching Happiness at Hogwarts

Strategy Driven

In 2004, for instance, a Harvard Crimson poll found that as many as 4 in 5 Harvard students suffer from depression at least once during the school year, and nearly half of all students suffer from depression so debilitating they can’t function. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc. to share his research with a wider population.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. I honestly think people would want to hear about it." She was right.