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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Accounting firm utilization plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, it is long past time for the field to have a serious conversation where their data comes from, and the ethics of using big data. For some researchers, that spreadsheet could have been an ethically questionable window into contemporary corporate practices.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012.