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Is Consumer Non-Durables a Good Career Path?

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Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and healthcare products are also considered consumer non-durables. Product Development and Innovation For those who enjoy creativity and problem-solving, a career in product development and innovation within the consumer non-durables industry can be incredibly rewarding.

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Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe

Harvard Business Review

Research in the area of behavioral business ethics has demonstrated that most of the initial ethical transgressions in business go unnoticed, even for those committing the transgression. We rationalize our bad behaviors to such an extent that we do not realize we are crossing ethical boundaries until it is too late.

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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. This we call ethics.

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

When pharmaceutical companies conduct clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of their drugs as part of the process for obtaining regulatory approval, some patients receive the drug and others some standard existing treatment or a sugar pill (placebo). The change is a success, right? Maybe or maybe not.

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People Think Companies Can’t Do Good and Make Money. Can Companies Prove Them Wrong?

Harvard Business Review

Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, it appears very difficult to make most people appreciate that ethical and profitable business practices do not fundamentally conflict. Making them think about profit in the long run had little effect. We describe these views as anti-profit beliefs. Our research.