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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. Their commitment to ethical practices is paramount, as they inspire trust and reinforce their credibility in the eyes of their stakeholders.

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The Man Who Is Changing The World.

Rich Gee Group

He started the Khan Academy as a way to tutor his cousins remotely — while he was a hedge fund analyst in Boston, and they were students in New Orleans. It was clear there was a huge unmet need, so Sal left his hedge fund job and started Khan Academy with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Kumar is well known on Capitol Hill and with global tax experts because he has deep and broad knowledge of the subject and understands the dynamics of how policy will shape up now and in the future. An ethical compass. In professional services, experts can write their own ticket. Whose will be gored? Who will get promoted?

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Loose Ties Are Abundant, but Risky, at the Top

Harvard Business Review

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

But by the end of the decade, the advocates of more rapid growth had pretty much won out in the name of better serving clients in an increasingly globalized world. They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S billion to $3.4

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? The demand for my ideas surged and soon went global. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Yahoo declined (as did others).

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Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy

Harvard Business Review

In the meantime, Mitt Romney's Republican opponents seem to be backpedaling on their criticism of his Bain Capital career, in service to the principle that free-market capitalism trumps any petty intramural disputes. Private equity" is, after all, just the modern name for what used to be called the "leveraged buyout" business.