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A Lesson from Warren Buffet about Ethical Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

And, when we allow financial firms to choose for themselves the agencies that rates their financial products, the agencies have every incentive to be lax. Auditors are expected to be independent, but their desire to please their client makes such independence impossible.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. Patent protection is becoming a more bureaucratic, red-tape-ridden, and uncertain process. Patenting is the bulwark of the system.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council. Use the right incentives. When operational staff knows that the C-suite will be on the receiving end of such reports, and that they will be analyzed in detail, it reminds mid-level management of the importance of risk reduction and injury prevention.