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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.” An ongoing battle.

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Departed Client Analysis: Opening Formal Channels of Feedback to Improve Customer Retention

Strategy Driven

The source of much of this faulty information is client service personnel, who ultimately are not in an objective position to gather and share unbiased feedback, due to factors such as personal client relationships and potential conflicts of interest. About the Author.

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page. Communication Public relations'

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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. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough.

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The Best Ways to Discuss Ethics

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the codes of conduct of many companies include statement such as "employees must avoid conflicts of interests" or "employees may not improperly use any company assets.". It turns out that this subtle difference in the framing of business objectives versus ethics affects employee behavior.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions. Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example).

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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

In this glowing yet skeptical-in-all-the-right-places article, Jason Fagone introduces readers to the SpeedForm, a shoe made in a bra factory that just might be Under Armour''s best chance at chipping away Nike''s 40% hold on the athletic shoe market. Plank says the shoe is cheap enough to be made in the U.S. —Andrea Ovans.

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