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Shaping Tomorrow’s Leadership Landscape: An Insightful Interview with Norm Smallwood

HR Digest

Walmart wants customers to know them for low prices, Singapore Airlines customers know them for customer connectivity, Apple customers perceive innovation and Fed Ex customers expect speed. They were clear that they wanted a customer value proposition emphasizing customer connectivity rather than lowest price.

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Finding The Changemakers Of Tomorrow

The Horizons Tracker

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. Lastly, the six week residential accelerator is a fully immersive experience.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

This scandal isn't about price-fixing. The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited. It's not about a bank.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry.

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

Harvard Business Review

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Paul Garbett for HBR. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. Our research.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. 17 percent).

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Your Data Literacy Depends on Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured

Harvard Business Review

The first four buckets roughly correspond to key steps in the data science hierarchy of needs, as recently proposed by Monica Rogati. Although it has not yet been formally incorporated into data science workflows, I have added data ethics as the fifth key concept because ethics needs to be part of any conversation about data.

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