N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Thanks for the great analysis and the context within which it was framed. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements? Thank for your comment.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

These events raise suspicion that many hedge fund traders may have succeeded at beating the market not through careful research and original analysis but by breaking the law. Signal 2: Other Traders Aren't Acting Ethically. (Recently, though, Jesse Eisenger in the New York Times called these investigations a " side show.").

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Hedge Ethics Incentives Environment 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It has already been demonstrated that facial image scans can be used to guess a person’s sexual orientation using algorithms that deliver a remarkable level of accuracy (while raising obvious ethical and privacy questions, too). It could be a powerful tool to root out identity thieves.

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Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

An analysis of those surveys and the reality of the stock market shows that the ranges they picked "were way too narrow," says researcher Campbell R. The Prophet Pacific Standard Is it ethical to charge people money in exchange for telling them that their debt is their own lazy fault? Harvey of Duke.

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CFO Survey Globalization Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They understand the power of focusing on the positive and not dwelling on the negative. What we know from other analysis of our Focus Elite firms is that in fact they do not pay top dollar for talent. Compared with these powerful intrinsic motivations, money is a weak, extrinsic one. They pay well, to be sure.

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