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10 High-Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a College Degree

HR Digest

Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Finance & Accounting Manager. Students often start their careers by taking internships at large corporations before moving into full-time employment.

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What Can You Achieve With An Economics Degree?

Strategy Driven

Finance consultant. Exceptional industry information and attention to corporate account is fundamental in these jobs. Data collector and manager. Yet, how would you be able to manage a financial aspects degree if nothing unless there are other options requests to you?

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

I believe that the purposes of the corporation today are threefold: creation of durable value for shareholders and stakeholders through sustained economic performance; sound risk management; and high integrity. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). (See But this is not just about better process.

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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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The Faustian Bargain of Online Services

Harvard Business Review

In November 2009 I took leave from my academic position to serve as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. The platform the perpetrator used to read my email was a cloud-based email provider corporate account. To me, this looks like a Faustian bargain.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

These sectoral scandals raise profound issues for business leaders: in a highly competitive global economy, in which some sectors are flooded with money, how do you assess sector-wide integrity risks and achieve a culture of corporate accountability before , not after, bad behavior occurs?

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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