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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018. The study validated the integrity measurement by comparing it with companies ranked as the most ethical by independent observers like Forbes and found a high correlation between the two.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

Making these hybrids work over the long term is difficult, because their incentives work against each other. Platform and publisher incentives are better aligned when a platform is new. As they lower their safeguards to attract more users, platishers enter a legal and ethical gray area. Business models Internet'

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Cheating at Harvard, and in the "Real World"

Harvard Business Review

Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative. Other methods — like the Montessori approach — seem to turn out more innovators.) The higher the stakes of the test, the greater the incentive to cheat. There was absolutely no incentive to learn any material."