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Do Financial Regulators Have Principles?

Harvard Business Review

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. It is not as though the Smith letter contained particularly new insights. It is pretty pathetic.

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The Long Road to “You’re Hired!”

Harvard Business Review

But from poorly written cover letters to interview no-shows to (yay) an eventual hire, Coyle''s story underlines one of the central tensions of the American economic recovery that seems easily solvable: Even though a lot of qualified workers can’t find jobs, a lot of jobs can’t quite find qualified workers.

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The Behavioral Science Behind the Negative TV Ads of Trump and Clinton

Harvard Business Review

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” Simpson : Or it could just be that when the subject is Trump, ONLY HUGE UPPERCASE LETTERS ARE STRONG ENOUGH.