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Six Rules to Hire By

Chart Your Course

The economy continues to improve with increased job creation in 2013. They host job fairs, place advertisements or offer current employees incentives for bringing in new hires. They host job fairs, place advertisements or offer current employees incentives for bringing in new hires. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Givers give without expectation of immediate return.

Coaching Tip

Traditionally the thinking has been that employers should appeal to workers’ more obvious forms of self-interest: financial incentives, yes, but also work that is inherently interesting or offers the possibility for career advancement. And takers seek to come out ahead in every exchange; they manage up and are defensive about their turf.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do.

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

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. 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.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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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. The higher the stakes of the test, the greater the incentive to cheat. I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013.