Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed. She believes there is more to her company than money.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

I was in a meeting the other day, when one of the participants received a call from a journalist looking for women business owners who were having trouble accessing credit. In addition, several entrepreneurs have told me about how their relationship with their banker has enabled them to keep or increase their lines of credit.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office? Don’t miss out!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

For example, during Podcamp Hawaii, I tuned in to the other presenters’ and participants’ tweets, which gave me background knowledge of what’s going on, what is important to who, and who’s who. Example 4: Twitter.com gives me a great sense of other people’s personalities and interests in a micro-blog format.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them. When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.”

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Keep your local community close and participate - not out of selfish intent but rather out of the joy of being with others who speak your language. Sometimes only another artist knows what yet another artist is talking about!

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Harvard Business Review

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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

National Institutes of Health, but the reverse is less clear; biopharmaceutical companies, too, participate in basic research that advances our understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment.

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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. Participation in money laundering that helps drug smugglers or terrorists. Deceptive communication within the company and to the board. Manipulation of energy markets. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

But the new commodities market participants may have made things worse, as Kocieniewski''s aluminum findings seem to show. Ethics Finance Global business' None of these studies blamed speculation for causing all or even most of the price movements. So what''s the solution? Speculation is, on balance, a good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. Adverse selection occurs when those particularly ill-suited for something are the most likely to participate. Adverse selection.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Their advice can be invaluable. Research prospects and contacts. There is no reason not to Google any names of interest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Perhaps that''s as it should be — insider trading does feel icky, and prosecuting it sends the signal that there are lines that market participants should not cross. Ethics Finance Government' Insider trading of shares in publicly held corporations has been criminalized, but few other dubious financial practices have.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Not every career path is suited to such global travel and perspective, but there are ways of introducing this element in your life in some small way or making it one of the main long-term goals of your career. Financial Security The most obvious goal of employment is financial security.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. Meetings can be very powerful tools, but you have to plan them out long before they happen. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. I would also suggest that attitude plays a huge difference in the equation as well.

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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 authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What is not in flux is this fundamental reality: American companies will, for a wide variety of reasons relating to global dynamism, continue to participate in this transformative era of global economic change by increasing activities and hiring workers outside the U.S., especially in fast-growing foreign markets. Worker Transition at Home.

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