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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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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. Invest in positive relationships. Sam Austin/Unsplash. Who do you serve? Remember why you work.

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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. But, without a good board and a good CEO, those restraints can only prevent negatives.

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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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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet.

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Alternatively, it could make the most of its strong position in emerging markets to focus on low-cost smartphones.