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The Future Is Where Brands Must Focus

Great Leadership By Dan

And the actions that these brands take to demonstrate their credibility must clearly illustrate a blend of corporate ethics and brand authenticity. And the ‘actual’ difference between ethical brands with a moral code and those exposed as being without one, is increasingly a key factor in consumer brand adoption or rejection.

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The Trust Issue

Strategy Driven

The ‘actual’ difference between ethical brands with a moral code and those exposed as being without one, is increasingly a key factor in consumer brand adoption or rejection. Make no mistake, organisations and brands that want to earn and keep our trust have to ‘live it like they say it’. Business has to be about more than just profit.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance. ZB by 2020.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. These novel data opportunities indeed reflect "fundamental value." or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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SAC and the Strange Focus on Insider Trading

Harvard Business Review

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds. Since then, Preet Bharara, the U.S.

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