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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". We''re not a technology firm." "We It may end up someplace where laws, regulations, and ethics are highly questionable. A question that could tell you a lot about the company''s potential under this leader.

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