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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

In this latest report, based on a larger-than-ever sample, 29% of breaches involved social tactics like getting employees to click on fake emails (phishing). Cyber security involves legal issues, human resources practices and policies, operational configurations, and technical expertise. Not a pleasant experience.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Edith Cooper, the global head of human capital management at Goldman Sachs, shared her experience: “People frequently assumed I was the most junior person in the room, when in fact, I was the most senior.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

This is the most frequent complaint I hear from the competitive intelligence analysts in my certification classes: their marketing bosses are exceedingly tactical in their requests for competitive data. In other words, they’re taking a snapshot of the present, not coming up with a perspective on the future. And I understand the appeal.