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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. They remain current with industry regulations and compliance requirements, ensuring their organizations operate within legal boundaries.

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How to conduct pre-employment background checks?

HR Digest

One has to be aware of the likely pitfalls, including being compliant with the equal opportunity acts and ethical standards. Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A We cannot emphasize the need for compliance while conducting background checks.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. Each has its place.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. In other words, compliance leads to deviance. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints. This kind of interdependence has the potential to move the focus back to ethical standards of behavior instead of just legal ones.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

That’s why rich people can invest in hedge funds while, for the most part, regular folks can’t. This is a big deal, and for much more than the legal/compliance reasons discussed in the piece. Ethics Finance Government' Then again, the people who write banking laws and regulations are not exactly immune from capture themselves.