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There's Still Time

Women on Business

If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. Interesting thoughts.

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What Companies Have Learned from Losing Billions in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Why We Need to Audit Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing. Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. Requiring managers to report periodically on their operations provides a check on that advantage.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S.

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Keep a List of Unethical Things You’ll Never Do

Harvard Business Review

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. I rationalized that I’d only be rearranging market shares, I wouldn’t be expanding the market. I sent them the proposal they requested. But I knew I’d feel that way even before I sent the proposal, and I’d sent it anyway.

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