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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business Review

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. Intellectual property theft.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Women in Power: Leadership Differences By Gender

Women on Business

A few of the most important and valuable leadership traits are: honesty, intelligence, work ethic, decisiveness, ambition, compassion, and creativeness. 2006, March 22). This statistic draws a question: what is the difference between a man and woman’s leadership style? So why are most of the leaders in modern America men? McKenna, M.

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Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties

Harvard Business Review

In addition to being good for your health , removing friction from "getting up" to walk around, and making you and your work ethic more visible, it makes you much more approachable during the day. But let them see that you are resisting some forms of short-term pay or comfort, and you'll get them fired up to do the same.