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Morning Advantage: Inside the Messy, Daunting, and Thoroughly Confusing Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Ethics aside, Auld’s Craigslist experiment is worth reading. The consensus, no surprise, is networking. Gallup recently helped an Asia-Pacific bank chain increase the engagement of their customers and employees alike. Within 24 hours, his fears were realized. He received over 600 replies. GETTING TO KNOW YOU.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Ethics Finance Global business' cent per aluminum can. The article is less clear about what brought this on. Morgan in the metals trade?

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Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis

Harvard Business Review

It has already been demonstrated that facial image scans can be used to guess a person’s sexual orientation using algorithms that deliver a remarkable level of accuracy (while raising obvious ethical and privacy questions, too).

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People Think Companies Can’t Do Good and Make Money. Can Companies Prove Them Wrong?

Harvard Business Review

Even in one of the most market-oriented societies in human history, it appears very difficult to make most people appreciate that ethical and profitable business practices do not fundamentally conflict. This expert consensus is incompatible with our subjects’ view of profit as almost necessarily coming at the expense of others.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Marketers, credit card companies, banks, local government agencies, political campaigns, and many others can harness SVPAs to both deliver critical information and to better read and understand constituents. Think of the block chain as a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data.

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