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Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Complicating matters, social media in the enterprise is spreading at viral speeds. "Go

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Morning Advantage: How Leaders Get Back Their Strategic Groove Back

Harvard Business Review

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. Reuters' Social Media Maven Gives Up Twitter (AdWeek). . — By Andy O'Connell. NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver.

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Morning Advantage: How Leaders Get Their Strategic Groove Back

Harvard Business Review

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. Reuters' Social Media Maven Gives Up Twitter (AdWeek). . — By Andy O'Connell. NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. million records).

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". In other cases, such as Nationwide Insurance ''s October 2012 security breach, companies invoke client-attorney privilege to seal the evidence. More recently, the Global Payments breach in April 2012 cost $93.9

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

While articles in the media have focused on the impossibility of getting by on such low wages, little attention has been paid to the company’s enormous appetite for stock buybacks. million in 2012, with the proportion of these totals derived from gains from stock-based compensation ranging from 37% in 2006 to 77% in 2010.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Many people, including quite a few U.S. Can we continue to rely on firms to manage such risks by themselves?