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

HR Digest

Most graduates take a variety of accounting courses such as personal financial planning and management, corporate accounting, cost accounting, and tax reporting. Students often start their careers by taking internships at large corporations before moving into full-time employment. Graphic Designer.

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5 Ways in Which Outsourcing is Leading Today’s Companies to Massive Growth

Strategy Driven

If you still have all, or part of, your company’s operations in-house, you might want to look at these five ways in which outsourcing is leading other companies just like yours to massive growth faster than they ever thought possible. Top Talent within Easy Reach. Company Expansion Doesn’t Require Larger Premises.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

These costs – and the risks to the broader economy — are high enough that we expect the inclusion of EvD to soon become a requirement in corporate accounting. Meaningfully defining EvD will help ensure that corporate accounting and risk management standards take into account present day realities.

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

But the Commission avoids the fundamental substantive questions: What are the purposes of the corporation ? What are the operational objectives which express those purposes? How should executives be compensated based on success or failure in attaining the operational goals?

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Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?

Harvard Business Review

Or, put more positively: have a much stronger sense of duty, independent of the CEO, actually to do what corporate law says directors should do — really oversee the management of the corporation at a fundamental, not micro, level. I hope it is also a harbinger of a real secular change in many more boardrooms.

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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

A wonderful New York Times article from 2007 recounted the 20 th annual “Operator’s Challenge” — aka the “Sludge Olympics” — a competition for New York sewage treatment workers. Sam Austin/Unsplash. The participants compete to show skill in their work, and often do so with great passion.

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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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