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Do Young People Just Need To Have A Dream?

The Horizons Tracker

The data shows that the sons and daughters of high-status parents have many more advantages in the labor market than previous work believed. The data includes information on the childhood environment of each participant, including their aspirations as a youngster, and the career and financial progress they made through their adult life.

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Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment

Harvard Business Review

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Keep a List of Unethical Things You’ll Never Do

Harvard Business Review

Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. I rationalized that I’d only be rearranging market shares, I wouldn’t be expanding the market. They were young; they were eager; they wanted to do fine things.

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Why We’re So Hypocritical About Online Privacy

Harvard Business Review

To address this question, a recent meta-analysis of 166 studies, including 75,269 participants of 34 countries, explored the so-called “privacy paradox,” that is, the puzzling fact that people’s concerns about privacy rarely appear to translate into protective behaviors. Getting Cybersecurity Right. Sponsored by Accenture.

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