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How to Delegate Your Email to an Assistant

Harvard Business Review

If your assistant is paid by your company, rather than you personally, take care to avoid exposing your assistant to messages that could create any conflicts of interest (for example, correspondence about a possible job change).

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. It’s a start.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Many of the web’s premier properties engaged in the tactic to varying degrees: Tumblr, Wikipedia, and Google promoted the cause with homepage takeovers and supportive links and emails. Business-to-business companies selling to other enterprises are more susceptible to the conflicts of interest that can arise between customers.

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

There are also multiple possibilities of potential conflicts of interest that can be hard to resolve. “If you work closely with the person, be mindful that when a relationship ends, often at least one person will be unhappy, and that can have a big impact on how you feel about coming to work every day.”.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Savvy plaintiff attorneys are also shifting legal tactics. Acknowledging the risks and inherent conflicts-of-interest surrounding retired assets will result in more effective ITAD policies and adequate safeguards.

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

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree. Accounting.

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Why Hillary Clinton Gets Interrupted More than Donald Trump

Harvard Business Review

This tactic allows us to recognize people based upon their personal attributes rather than based on stereotypes about groups to which they belong. What we can do to prevent these widespread biases from affecting what we say and do? First, we need to be aware of these biases and how they operate.