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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.”

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We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other

Harvard Business Review

But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and his wife Shannon, Lululemon’s original athletic wear designer, was not one of his finest moments. We rely on simple, efficient thought processes to get the job done – not so much out of laziness (though there is some of that, too), but out of necessity.

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Cheating at Harvard, and in the "Real World"

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. If your goal is results and efficiency, then cheating is always the best solution: copying someone else's work is the most efficient route to the correct answer.