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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.” ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier

Harvard Business Review

Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership. The result was an intense focus on risk, including risks related to ethical standards. Ethics Finance Risk management' As a partnership, each partner was financially interconnected with the others.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter. And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives.

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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

People are OK at assessing others but really bad at seeing themselves in their own unvarnished, self-centered, sometimes ethically challenged glory, as psychologist David Dunning writes (Robert Stephen Kaplan says we don''t know our own strengths either ). But then only 43% of the total actually made such a purchase. — Andy O''Connell.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.