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It's typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). MORE
In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. MORE
I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! MORE
But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance. MORE
Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission. While values and ethics remain consistent, delivery models must change with time to in order to endure. MORE
The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. As a result, the optimal CFO-GC alliance is now much more like a peer relationship, jointly coordinating and overseeing fundamental corporate issues of performance, compliance, ethics, risk and governance, and organization. MORE
Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. Once you’ve had that Eureka moment, your mind will be fully focused on growing those seeds of an idea into a fully grown business. As such, it’s only natural that you’ll want to take control of the entire venture. MORE
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.&# - Helen Keller “Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.&# - Benjamin Franklin “A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. MORE
Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. New CEO Antony Jenkins has set out an ethical vision for the bank, assessing performance “not just on what we deliver but on how we deliver it.” Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business. MORE
They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening. MORE
Apart from that, you might have certain ethical requirements like wanting to avoid tobacco or fossil fuels, which are requirements you need to discuss with your wealth manager. Managing Your Finances business management Capital Gains Tax strategydriven MORE
These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. MORE
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. salary X, if certain milestones are met on schedule and also tied work ethic and thorough performance-both field and paperwork… a person would have the ability to increase their pay by X. MORE
But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. Finance Google Information & technologyGoogle's Sergey Brin knows a multibillion investment opportunity when he sees one. Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. MORE
When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Document practices, procedures, operations and structure in writing. MORE
Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture. Pushing back against members of Congress last week, he asserted, “the culture of the company is strong” and is “based on ethics and doing what’s right.” Ethics Leadership Boards Digital Article MORE
For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Is it truly impossible for these companies to determine the source of their raw materials and whether those materials were acquired ethically? Ethics Psychology Social responsibility Article MORE
When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees. MORE
As the president of Almond China, he wanted to show his Chongqing colleagues how much he cared about the topic under discussion: ethical business practices. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Liu kept an eye on Wang as the HR director leading the training explained Almond's ethics regulations and the legal consequences of business bribery. MORE
This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations. MORE
link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. MORE
From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. The inability to differentiate between Wall Street and Main Street by Washington, as well as by the public at large, has hurt the image of Main Street banks and increased their cost of operations. Compensation Ethics FinanceThere's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. MORE
But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Its purpose is to prevent undue business risk, prevent violations of the spirit and letter of formal rules (financial and legal) and to prevent transgressions of global standards (ethics) which an organization imposes upon itself to enhance sound performance or to promote integrity. Boards Ethics Risk management MORE
As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Without clear ethics rules, Jay worried that his already divided directors would fall into bitter squabbling, which could lead to resignations, negative media attention, and a flight of investors. What is ‘green’ if not an ethical principle? MORE
Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? In essence, these financing structures were a "fail safe" designed to ensure that Enron''s balance sheet remained investment grade. Instead, the rating agencies downgraded Enron, the trading operations were forced out of business, $4 billion of debt was accelerated, and Enron was forced to file for bankruptcy. The financing structures built to protect Enron in just such an event were unwound. MORE
It was an event packed with prominent people who work (or worked) in finance, but seem to come from a different, more genteel world than the bulk of modern Wall Street: Bogle, Swensen, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, former TIAA-CREF CEO John Biggs. For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. Compensation Ethics Finance MORE
Somehow, a theoretical assumption, widely used in a one cluster of academic specialties — economics, finance, econometric modeling, and the like — became transformed, primarily in the United States near the end of the 20th century, into a supreme decision principle. It is a simple, clear, and highly useful criterion — for routine decisions in businesses operating in competitive markets and with sound legal systems. Decision making Leadership Ethics Digital Articl MORE
The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. MORE
Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines. While no one advocates for labor abuses, poor working conditions are often seen as an inevitable consequence of global trade. MORE
Most companies have some version of a matrix, with a combination of enabling "functions" (such as IT, HR, and Finance) and line business units. Ethics Operations Organizational cultureOne of the most sacred tenants of management is the need for clear accountability. As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly. MORE
In case you have just returned from, say, a long trek in the Himalayas and haven't heard about it, 60 Minutes and well-known adventure sports author Jon Krakauer claim that, among other things, many of the schools that Mortenson has helped build in Pakistan and Afghanstan are sitting unused and empty, and that the finances of his charity are mismanaged.). Education Ethics MORE
It''s typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). MORE
AI systems must be built from the get-go to operate in trust-based partnerships with people. Many professions, such as medicine, finance, and law, already require evidence-based audit ability as a normal practice for providing transparency of decision-making and managing liability. In addition, AI systems can and should have mechanisms to insert a variety of ethical values appropriate to the context, such as the task, the individual, the profession, or the culture. MORE
He notes that knowledge workers are mainly motivated by: 1) mastery, or continuous improvement, progress; 2) autonomy, or freedom to operate independently; and 3) purpose, or meaningful work, not busywork. Client Satisfaction, Excellence, Ethics/Integrity, and Professionalism round out the top five values that leaders know their firms must embrace. Finance Leading teams Organizational culture MORE
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion. Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? MORE
Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. Operational Statistics. MORE
Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. Once you’ve had that Eureka moment, your mind will be fully focused on growing those seeds of an idea into a fully grown business. As such, it’s only natural that you’ll want to take control of the entire venture. MORE
Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change. MORE
Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf? Economy Ethics Finance MORE
While the rest of the stock market world was still operating in terms of minutes and seconds, the HFTers (led by two Chicago-based firms, hedge-fund giant Citadel and upstart GETCO, now called KCG ) found a whole new world of profit in the milliseconds and microseconds between when orders were placed and filled. Ethics Finance Technology MORE
a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules. MORE
How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? MORE
It's not – Unless the request infringes upon our values, moral or ethical standards using no as a response is just intellectually lazy, avoidance or ego centric – imho [link] mikemyatt So Dan, tell me how you really feel All kidding aside, you and I are definitely on the same page here. MORE
That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. If we operate from a level of consciousness beyond the ego – in other words, our higher self, spirit or soul, then we experience no such fear. MORE
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Apart from that, you might have certain ethical requirements like wanting to avoid tobacco or fossil fuels, which are requirements you need to discuss with your wealth manager. Managing Your Finances business management Capital Gains Tax strategydriven
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
It was an event packed with prominent people who work (or worked) in finance, but seem to come from a different, more genteel world than the bulk of modern Wall Street: Bogle, Swensen, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, former TIAA-CREF CEO John Biggs. For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. Compensation Ethics Finance
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Document practices, procedures, operations and structure in writing.
Six Disciplines
JULY 25, 2014
It''s typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics).
Six Disciplines
MARCH 21, 2011
It's typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates. Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics).
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture. Pushing back against members of Congress last week, he asserted, “the culture of the company is strong” and is “based on ethics and doing what’s right.” Ethics Leadership Boards Digital Article
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Somehow, a theoretical assumption, widely used in a one cluster of academic specialties — economics, finance, econometric modeling, and the like — became transformed, primarily in the United States near the end of the 20th century, into a supreme decision principle. It is a simple, clear, and highly useful criterion — for routine decisions in businesses operating in competitive markets and with sound legal systems. Decision making Leadership Ethics Digital Articl
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Strategy Driven
MAY 4, 2020
Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. Once you’ve had that Eureka moment, your mind will be fully focused on growing those seeds of an idea into a fully grown business. As such, it’s only natural that you’ll want to take control of the entire venture.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. New CEO Antony Jenkins has set out an ethical vision for the bank, assessing performance “not just on what we deliver but on how we deliver it.” Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 29, 2012
Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf? Economy Ethics Finance
N2Growth Blog
JULY 6, 2010
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion. Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2011
From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. The inability to differentiate between Wall Street and Main Street by Washington, as well as by the public at large, has hurt the image of Main Street banks and increased their cost of operations. Compensation Ethics FinanceThere's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2010
This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2013
Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? In essence, these financing structures were a "fail safe" designed to ensure that Enron''s balance sheet remained investment grade. Instead, the rating agencies downgraded Enron, the trading operations were forced out of business, $4 billion of debt was accelerated, and Enron was forced to file for bankruptcy. The financing structures built to protect Enron in just such an event were unwound.
Strategy Driven
MARCH 21, 2019
Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. Once you’ve had that Eureka moment, your mind will be fully focused on growing those seeds of an idea into a fully grown business. As such, it’s only natural that you’ll want to take control of the entire venture.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 25, 2010
These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2016
For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Is it truly impossible for these companies to determine the source of their raw materials and whether those materials were acquired ethically? Ethics Psychology Social responsibility Article
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2014
While the rest of the stock market world was still operating in terms of minutes and seconds, the HFTers (led by two Chicago-based firms, hedge-fund giant Citadel and upstart GETCO, now called KCG ) found a whole new world of profit in the milliseconds and microseconds between when orders were placed and filled. Ethics Finance Technology
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. salary X, if certain milestones are met on schedule and also tied work ethic and thorough performance-both field and paperwork… a person would have the ability to increase their pay by X.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission. While values and ethics remain consistent, delivery models must change with time to in order to endure.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Most companies have some version of a matrix, with a combination of enabling "functions" (such as IT, HR, and Finance) and line business units. Ethics Operations Organizational cultureOne of the most sacred tenants of management is the need for clear accountability. As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly.
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2010
They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders who operate behind a veil of secrecy are only setting themselves up for a rude awakening.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2010
When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.
Harvard Business
MARCH 7, 2017
But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. Uber apparently lacked oversight about sexual harassment behavior; it seems far less likely that such oversight would be lacking when it comes to finance.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 5, 2010
That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. If we operate from a level of consciousness beyond the ego – in other words, our higher self, spirit or soul, then we experience no such fear.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. Finance Google Information & technologyGoogle's Sergey Brin knows a multibillion investment opportunity when he sees one. Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work!
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 17, 2010
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.&# - Helen Keller “Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.&# - Benjamin Franklin “A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2012
He notes that knowledge workers are mainly motivated by: 1) mastery, or continuous improvement, progress; 2) autonomy, or freedom to operate independently; and 3) purpose, or meaningful work, not busywork. Client Satisfaction, Excellence, Ethics/Integrity, and Professionalism round out the top five values that leaders know their firms must embrace. Finance Leading teams Organizational culture
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 6, 2011
It's not – Unless the request infringes upon our values, moral or ethical standards using no as a response is just intellectually lazy, avoidance or ego centric – imho [link] mikemyatt So Dan, tell me how you really feel All kidding aside, you and I are definitely on the same page here.
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 18, 2011
Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
AI systems must be built from the get-go to operate in trust-based partnerships with people. Many professions, such as medicine, finance, and law, already require evidence-based audit ability as a normal practice for providing transparency of decision-making and managing liability. In addition, AI systems can and should have mechanisms to insert a variety of ethical values appropriate to the context, such as the task, the individual, the profession, or the culture.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 20, 2011
As the president of Almond China, he wanted to show his Chongqing colleagues how much he cared about the topic under discussion: ethical business practices. The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Liu kept an eye on Wang as the HR director leading the training explained Almond's ethics regulations and the legal consequences of business bribery.
Harvard Business
JULY 25, 2016
The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. As a result, the optimal CFO-GC alliance is now much more like a peer relationship, jointly coordinating and overseeing fundamental corporate issues of performance, compliance, ethics, risk and governance, and organization.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove.
Women on Business
JANUARY 11, 2011
How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love?
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. Operational Statistics.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2011
In case you have just returned from, say, a long trek in the Himalayas and haven't heard about it, 60 Minutes and well-known adventure sports author Jon Krakauer claim that, among other things, many of the schools that Mortenson has helped build in Pakistan and Afghanstan are sitting unused and empty, and that the finances of his charity are mismanaged.). Education Ethics
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2013
But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Its purpose is to prevent undue business risk, prevent violations of the spirit and letter of formal rules (financial and legal) and to prevent transgressions of global standards (ethics) which an organization imposes upon itself to enhance sound performance or to promote integrity. Boards Ethics Risk management
Harvard Business
MAY 26, 2016
Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines. While no one advocates for labor abuses, poor working conditions are often seen as an inevitable consequence of global trade.
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