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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Many of those investigating Enron had received campaign contributions from the company, yet kept maximum objectivity. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. Accounting. ’ Lawyers.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

By joining the Head Health Initiative (a joint technology venture between the NFL and GE that focuses on detecting and preventing brain injuries), Plank is also not-so-subtly getting his foot in the league''s door — one that''s propped open by Nike (of course), which currently holds the contract to make NFL uniforms.

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