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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

Essentially, governance sketches the framework within which an organization pirouettes and mastering governance is synonymous with actualizing strategic objectives and sustainable growth. A proficient board is a guiding light, offering leadership and oversight to fuel the realization of organizational objectives.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

And now Plank, with his innovative foresight and devotion to the city of Baltimore, is making his biggest bet yet. As Fagone claims, "innovation probably can''t do anything to protect the shy sack of mayonnaise that is the human brain if the human it belongs to is hitting another human with the force of 15 to 20 Gs."

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

An Uber ride carries a real commercial value, and donating them en masse to get users to a candidate’s rally, for example, could fit the FEC’s definition of an in-kind contribution (providing an object or service, “anything of value”). Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Researchers Show How Lobbyists Try To Influence US Policy Towards The WHO

The Horizons Tracker

positions on global health is problematic because it elevates commercial interests in processes shaping global health objectives. Furthermore, these corporate entities have vast, concentrated pools of private wealth to draw on that public-interest groups lobbying for health policy cannot match.”

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