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Tips on Investing as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

This can affect your finances as well as your reputation if the company you invest in turns out to be bad. This helps you develop a better understanding of your finances and the risk associated with the investments you want to make and create a portfolio that enhances your reputation, among other things. What debt do you have?

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

From a historical perspective, the idea that managers in organizations have a single, dominant duty — to achieve or maximize economic returns — is a striking development. In addition, 30 states have passed laws that explicitly authorize companies to consider the interests of parties other than shareholders.

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At Olympus and Goldman Sachs, Two Very Different Whistleblowers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the SEC in 2010 had charged Goldman with misleading some of the parties to a billion dollar transaction (involving a complex derivative called a synthetic collateralized debt obligation), alleging specific facts about undisclosed conflicts of interest. Goldman settled within months for $550 million.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008.