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How Do You Know a Great Person When You See One?

Harvard Business Review

The Times calls it "the admissions equivalent of speed-dating": nine eight-minute conversations about an ethical dilemma, on-the-spot decisions, even health-care policy that aim to capture who candidates are, not just how smart they are. "We It's your job, as a group, to reach a consensus about who else gets in.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. Ethical Quandaries. Even more disturbing, one in six say they''ve been personally bullied into doing something counter to their ethical values or their customers'' interests. — actually lead to more-productive employees and companies?

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

With a $40 billion paper valuation , the simple app connecting drivers to passengers is now worth more than Halliburton Corporation, Aetna, General Mills, Delta Airlines, Kraft Foods, and Charles Schwab. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data.

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