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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Whole Foods Market. Telecommunications. Telecommunications. Telecommunications. compared to weighted average of 5.2%

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Two Words to Help You Gut Check Your Career

Harvard Business Review

As a child I felt no particular interest in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, computers, oil and gas, health and beauty aids, medical devices, airlines, or shipbuilding, all of which I’ve simulated or war-gamed. I wonder what makes people market products that they know cause addiction and death. Then they grow up.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."