Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2011

There exists a pervasive and ongoing belief among many that government has the power to eliminate hardship and create prosperity for everyone. Nothing, of course, could be farther from the truth. You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”

Metrics 50

Metrics Conflict of Interest Uncertainty Follow-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2012

This comprehensive, powerful program leads to better sales techniques and increased close rates. Implement the Right Techniques to Increase Your Close Rate. Refreshingly direct and right to the point, this system is based on 12 years of research and thousands of sales prospect interviews. In short, it works.

Analysis 50

Analysis Conflict of Interest Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The latter role was codified in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act of 1950, which provided the FDIC “additional powers to both expedite the liquidation process for banks and thrifts in order to maintain confidence in the nation’s banking system,” the FDIC’s Resolution Handbook explains.

Banking 50

Banking Real Estate Insurance Handbook 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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.

Banking 9

Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

If CEOs want shareholders to understand their own interests, corporations need to help educate their shareholders by providing more and better information about the firm's need to invest in its future, the importance of maintaining good relationships with stakeholders, and the company's commitment to ethical and socially-responsible behavior.

Long-term 11

Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

These incentives play a powerful role in how business schools are ranked. To be sure, corporate funding of medical research for some time has been accused of biasing findings in favor of for-profit interests. Corporate-funded business school research has the potential for conflicts of interest as well.

Incentives 11

Incentives Conflict of Interest Conference Article 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Each of the 18 principal investigators (in charge of the various instrument payloads the spacecraft was carrying to capture and transmit information and images from the mission) were authorized to trade key resources — cost, mass, power, and data allotments — across the entire project. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

Each of the 18 principal investigators (in charge of the various instrument payloads the spacecraft was carrying to capture and transmit information and images from the mission) were authorized to trade key resources — cost, mass, power, and data allotments — across the entire project. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

Some firms hired expert industry consultants to help them find ideas outside their firms, but these individuals, too, had (and still have) limited knowledge, and in some cases conflicts of interest. The best ones often are working with a firm’s competitors. How else would they really know what’s going on?).

Innovation 8

Innovation Licensing Directory Document 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The researchers chalk it up to an unconscious desire to please the client in an effort to open up future employment opportunities — a mind-set that, the researchers argue, exposes their employers to significant risk from both inaccurate work and the appearance (if not the fact) of a conflict of interest. —Andrea Ovans.

Price 8

Price Company Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s proven power to affect voting turnout alarmed some, but that concern was largely hypothetical. Business-to-business companies selling to other enterprises are more susceptible to the conflicts of interest that can arise between customers.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is why mitigation requires government policy mandates, and I think CEOs should try to use their power of persuasion to try to get government to require mitigation — and adaptation. Whelan : Most of the CEOs did talk about policy in the interviews, but their statements were pretty vague. It’s a start.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

But in hierarchical, high-power-distance markets like Asia — specifically Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand — this policy created unintended conflicts among leaders and sent confusing signals to the rest of the organization regarding who was more powerful and higher-ranking within the organization.

Process 10

Process Globalization Conflict of Interest Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In fact, Bloomberg reported that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation. The wealthy can now install large high-power solar energy systems that produce enough energy to meet their needs for an entire year. As I previously wrote , the U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

The reality is that there is a major difference between supporting unions and taking away legitimate bidding power from small contractors and family owned, non-union businesses. StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Government as Owner and Regulator: The Ultimate Conflict of Interest.

Project 50

Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Given the industry’s massive conflict of interest, there is every reason to believe they are playing a double game: trying to buy a little credibility with these public comments while using all their quiet lobbying muscle to crush any threat of bipartisan action on the carbon pricing they claim to espouse.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Supply Chain Industry Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

In just the last few months, President Trump made a commitment to bring down drug prices, high-ranking government ministers in the Netherlands published a strong call to develop alternative pharmaceutical business models, and the OECD released a report that recognized the need to rebalance the negotiating powers of payers and pharma companies.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. One must question why one company could wield such control over the investment community and what powers Wall Street had acquiesced in order for such power to grow. Think they can make more money, amass more power. ’ Lawyers.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. Practically every other major central bank has more powers to do that since the crisis, whereas the Federal Reserve, as a result of Dodd-Frank, has far less power, far less capacity to do that.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

While Republicans in Congress have begun to show some interest in investigating the Trump campaign’s pre-election ties to Russia, it remains the case that party competition, not the checks and balances among branches of the government, is the most important restraint on the power of the president.

Strategy 14

Strategy Policies Politics Ryan 14