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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. And it requires a constant vigilance to make sure that you don’t get into legal or ethical grey areas or lose sight of the company’s interests. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions. Incentives and pressure to inflate achievement of targets.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough.