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What Can You Achieve With An Economics Degree?

Strategy Driven

There is solid interest for profoundly numerate alumni all through the worldwide work market, and the generally adaptable logical and critical thinking abilities created by financial matters understudies implies that vocations in financial aspects are amazingly wide going and different. Finance consultant. Banker with eco degree.

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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. Online marketing Social media Technology'

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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. Claw-backs or hold-backs of past awards could be appropriate for the departed employees.

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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? The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8

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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

Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). .”

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