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The Road to Financial Success – Tips for Young Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

Develop a Strong Work Ethic Growing a business and creating new opportunities takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and persistence. As a young entrepreneur, you must have a strong work ethic that will allow you to put in the time and effort required to achieve your goals.

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How to Fix Financial Capitalism? Focus on Ethics

Harvard Business Review

It has forgotten, as economist Robert Shiller writes in Finance and the Good Society , that "financing is really creating the architecture for reaching a goal. The goals served by finance originate with us. Finance is not about making money per se. Require training on ethical decision-making for yourself and your firm.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

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. In other words, in the case of a large fine, the senior management and the material risk-takers would forfeit its performance bond. Compensation Ethics Finance'

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

It is certainly true that investors, dismayed at the prospect of low returns for stocks and bonds for years to come, have poured money into commodities over the past decade. Ethics Finance Global business' Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity?

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating

Harvard Business Review

To make such requests, you're going to need to have built a hell of a personal bond. Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. Depending on where you're working and what you're selling, you may be asking for their courage. They are the whole point of business." This isn't just happy talk from a guy who's already made it.

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The Anti-Goldman Culture

Harvard Business Review

But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. Yu testified before Congress about the problems on Wall Street and in bond rating firms, and was profiled on NPR about her decisions. —the home of the Vanguard Group.