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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. It’s not just products. With the right interactions, large companies can add customer value and augment products with recurring revenue businesses.

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, it is long past time for the field to have a serious conversation where their data comes from, and the ethics of using big data. For some researchers, that spreadsheet could have been an ethically questionable window into contemporary corporate practices. at the end of 2014.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. anti-bribery, money laundering, product safety, etc.) This step aims to bring appropriate expertise (e.g.

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Why Companies Are Blind to Child Labor

Harvard Business Review

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor. More diligence is possible.