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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business Review

Deutsche Bank , for example, forced CEO Oscar Wassermann and executive board member Theodor Frank to resign their positions by June 1, 1933. For example, after Apple CEO Steve Jobs took permanent medical leave in 2011, Apple stock fell by 6%. By 1938, virtually no Jewish managers remained in firms listed in Berlin.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business Review

For example, a recently proposed Indian government policy on e-commerce and a similar order from the country’s central bank seeks to prohibit data on Indian e-commerce consumers from being stored outside India. in the first quarter of 2018, continues to maintain its position as the world’s fastest-growing large economy.