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Inclusive Managers Are Good For Company Share Prices

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Investment in diversity and inclusion can often be dismissed as something that’s a nice to have but which doesn’t really positively influence the profitability of a company. Research from Columbia Business School decries that notion, and indeed finds that investing in inclusiveness boosts the stock price of companies that do so.

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Research Explores The Impact The President Has On Stock Prices

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Companies’ alignment with a president’s policy agenda initially boosts their stock prices, but the effect is short-lived. Investors tend to overvalue policy alignment, pushing prices higher than actual value. Over a one-year period, companies not aligned with presidential policies deliver better returns.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

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airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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What Impact Does Social Media Activity Have On Firms Share Price?

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Bar the occasional incident where the social media activity of companies blows up into a furor of negative publicity, it’s perhaps fair to say that most tweets and Facebook posts fly under the radar. The researchers used real-time data to assess the impact of social media activity on a firm’s stock price. Moving the needle.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects.

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Executives Tip More When Their Companies Do Well

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Research from Binghamton University shows that this extends to tipping, with executives more likely to tip more when their company’s shares do well. “Employee spending is a big factor that governments consider when trying to attract companies into their area, as it can stimulate the local economy,” the researcher explains.

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Why Putting Profit Over People is Always Bad for Your Company

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But that focus comes at a high price that may jeopardize your longer-term success. When a company focuses entirely on the bottom line, talent is seen as expendable. In the past, companies could treat their employees poorly and few people would even know. When those experiences are poor, your company’s reputation suffers.

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