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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

While growing number of CEOs are in favor of requiring workers to be vaccinated, the rest are gauging if the time is right to change their vaccination policies in the workplace without standing out from the crowd. CEOs need a plan to back their team with vaccination policies. 1 or submit to weekly testing.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

The correct choice of your small business structure is going to influence all your daily operations, taxes, filing, personal liability, and asset management,Henceforth, choose it wisely so that you can obtain the right balance of your legal protections and advantages. Purchasing an Insurance Policy. Choosing a Business Name.

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Set clear policies. For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Ireland is not a role model for austerity policies, but rather a cautionary tale. Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." Which makes sense — most asset managers have a shared interest with CEOs in keeping top-of-the-scale paychecks high. One recent study by David F. Larcker, Allan L.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

In July, General Mills — nobody’s idea of a radical company — expanded the pro-climate lobbying group BICEP beyond the usual suspects (Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s) to add a distinctly mainstream voice to the call for policies like a price on carbon. Kellogg’s officially joined the group yesterday as well.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business Review

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Aggregator and comparison websites have brought greater price visibility and ease of product comparison to banking, insurance, hotels and other consumer markets.

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