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Management Futures: An ethical dilemma, and a dilemma of ethics

Chartered Management Institute

For example, the honourable principle of holding debt to maturity was replaced by looser rules to allow debt to be parcelled up and traded, leading to ‘a chain of invisible intermediaries who were buying and reselling the most toxic of stuff’. You are not watching this post, click to start watching read more'

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. He is extremely mature emotionally and described his ability to separate from the emotions of a situation. [link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

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What We Know About Income Mobility Depends on How We Define It

Harvard Business Review

The US has long had higher inequality than other advanced democracies, although many Americans see this as part and parcel of the “American Dream” of rising living standards and social mobility. But recent research by Harvard University’s Equality of Opportunity Project has opened up a new front in this debate.