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How Whistleblowers Deter Poor Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

They explored how the stock market reacted when 13 data leaks involving offshore tax evasion at Swiss banks were made public. The researchers examined the world of cross-border wealth management in Switzerland, which is the world’s biggest market for such activity. Active deterrent.

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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches. I wonder why? why is everyone smiling?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment.

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

It may end up someplace where laws, regulations, and ethics are highly questionable. For example, Brazil and Saudi Arabia sound like safe, low-cost offshore data locations, yet Transparency International''s Corruptions Perceptions Index ranks them lower than Cuba and Rwanda. it doesn''t mean that the data is going to stay there.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.