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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. They remain current with industry regulations and compliance requirements, ensuring their organizations operate within legal boundaries.

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Research: Index Funds Are Improving Corporate Governance

Harvard Business Review

Hedge fund activist Bill Ackman posed that question recently in his fund’s annual letter to investors. Unlike high-profile activist hedge funds, which attempt to outperform the market, the primary goal of passive investors is to deliver returns that match a market index. laura schneider FOR HBR. It’s a really good one.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. In other words, compliance leads to deviance. Our research draws upon “moral licensing” theory which asserts, essentially, that doing good things gives us license to do bad things later. It views morality as a kind of bank account.

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Why Is It So Hard for Us to Admit Our Mistakes?

Harvard Business Review

He manages a $2 billion hedge fund that had a terrible quarter — two of his largest positions, both energy stocks, dropped 25%, turning what would have been a lackluster result into a disaster. One case in point I came across recently was Brad.

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How to conduct pre-employment background checks?

HR Digest

Negligent hire claims are a serious risk and a thorough background check helps you hedge that risk. (A We cannot emphasize the need for compliance while conducting background checks. Negligence in follow-ups. Employers typically lose the case and the average negligent hire suit settles for $1 million. .

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

That’s why rich people can invest in hedge funds while, for the most part, regular folks can’t. This is a big deal, and for much more than the legal/compliance reasons discussed in the piece. That’s because, for the past two decades or so, not having a substantive conflict of interest policy has been Goldman’s business model.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window. In the U.S.,

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