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The Economics of Why Companies Don’t Fix Their Toxic Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Your Corporate Purpose Will Ring Hollow If the Company’s Actions Don’t Back It Up

Harvard Business Review

” (IAG is the parent company of a general insurance group with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.). The pattern has again been discovered at several expensive Australian restaurants operated by high-profile and well-off chefs. They’ve been caught short-changing their employees.

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

May 4 th has become an annual commemoration of the Star Wars media franchise. Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. Today is Star Wars Day. Ultimately, the problem is a failure of leadership.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

They’ve never franchised. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Simplicity is the culture; it is the cornerstone of customer service – even extends to geographies. and going public?

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership.

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The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. The franchise model empowers local board and staff members to take appropriate action.