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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.” ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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Why Executives Should Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. He was well known in their industry for his tenacity, work ethic, and sheer brilliance when it came to numbers.

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Executives Must Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. He was well known in their industry for his tenacity, work ethic, and sheer brilliance when it came to numbers.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. That country?

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A Recession Doesn’t Mean Your Startup Can’t Grow

Harvard Business Review

the Federal Reserve finds it difficult to commit to a plan for 2016. Seven years after that infamous day in 2008, we are a post-IPO company with a market cap of over $1 billion dollars. A better work ethic. The correction for tech companies appears to be well underway. In the U.S., Should they hold off on growing sales?

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