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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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Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Strategy Driven

PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Charles Ferguson, director of Academy Award winning documentary, Inside Job , a film that raises red flags about the world of finance. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided funding for this project.

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Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?

Harvard Business Review

Two bank employees debate whether to blow the whistle on their employer after they discover undisclosed conflicts of interest.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

The other smoking gun is that Segarra pushed for a tough Fed line on Goldman’s lack of a substantive conflict of interest policy, and was rebuffed by her boss. 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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Mitigate the Risk in Social Media Selling

Harvard Business Review

Deborah Gonzalez, an attorney specializing in social media, has seen dangers arise particularly in industries such as health care and finance, which have strict requirements regarding communications — but she's observed privacy and confidentiality issues in less regulated environments as well. Policies at IBM, Nordstrom, and the U.S.

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The JOBS Act, Groupon, and Gullible Investors

Harvard Business Review

The accounting firms that audit financial statements were subjected to tougher conflict-of-interest rules and oversight by a new federal agency.

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