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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things. Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. When the PM makes a concerted effort to have a strong relationship with sales, their product success will increase.

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Will Economics Finally Get Its Paradigm Shift?

Harvard Business Review

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. On the theoretical side, there seems to be much less consensus than there was 50 years ago about what rational behavior under uncertainty even looks like. Maybe that’s just me.

Cooper 9
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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

That's why Lord Robert Skidelsky recommended a couple of years ago that while microeconomists could be allowed to proceed along pretty much the same statistical and mathematical path they'd been following, graduate education in macroeconomics needed to be dramatically revamped and supplemented with instruction in ethics, philosophy, and politics.

Tversky 11
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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

And the consensus among economists has for decades been that commodity speculation clearly serves a useful purpose — so more of it can''t hurt, right? Ethics Finance Global business' By Adam Smith''s reasoning, this shouldn''t be a bad thing — people of character, or at least fortune, are getting into the trade.

Cost 8
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Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis

Harvard Business Review

It has already been demonstrated that facial image scans can be used to guess a person’s sexual orientation using algorithms that deliver a remarkable level of accuracy (while raising obvious ethical and privacy questions, too).

Crisis 9