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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. Yet, the comments also reinforce Auld's opinions about how crazy and daunting the job market can be. Gallup recently helped an Asia-Pacific bank chain increase the engagement of their customers and employees alike.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity? Markets that existed mainly for the convenience of industry have become dominated by exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. Morgan in the metals trade?

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Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis

Harvard Business Review

For instance, based on your credit score, profession, age group, or zip code, marketers infer that you fit into specific marketing demographics. Perhaps the extrapolated marketing use points to a heavy drinker in a desirable economic demographic or with a preferred liquor brand.

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

Harvard Business Review

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? Our research.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

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