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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

Upwardly-mobile CEOs – who had been able to move up through the class system, largely as a result of strong educational attainment, which was higher than not only their parents but also the average CEO. Middle-class CEOs – these are those from more average family backgrounds in terms of both household income and education level.

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“Goodbye Mr. Jones”: The End of the Dow as an American Index

Mills Scofield

This is taken from The Intercollegiate Finance Journal (IFJ) is an undergraduate student-run journal about how current finance, economics, business and technology issues affect students'' lives. Economics is the study of incentives, so a good economist knows that to change the corporate system, you have to change corporate incentives.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.

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Challenging the Next Generation of Business Leaders

Coaching Tip

Even if the government had the deep pockets to finance our recovery, it’s a national shame that Washington, D.C. We need to create a climate in which our multi-faceted, robust and resilient American business establishment can thrive through the virtues of the free-market system, starting with deregulation.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Formerly in sales and sales management for pharmaceutical organizations including GlaxoSmithKline UK and US.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. To be sure, many factors influence health outcomes and the investments the health care system makes are only one input. Yet, investments in the U.S. For instance, the U.S. For instance, the U.S.