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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

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in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas. Personally and professionally I am influenced heavily by my ethics and standards.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." You can make a lot of money in finance doing things that are bound blow up in someone's face a few years down the road. The Financial Services Roundtable, the lobbying group for the biggest financial companies in the U.S.,

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

That's why Lord Robert Skidelsky recommended a couple of years ago that while microeconomists could be allowed to proceed along pretty much the same statistical and mathematical path they'd been following, graduate education in macroeconomics needed to be dramatically revamped and supplemented with instruction in ethics, philosophy, and politics.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been meaning for a while now to buy and read two critical books on HFT published in 2012, Scott Patterson’s Dark Pools and Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi’s Broken Markets — both of which Lewis gushingly endorses. Ethics Finance Technology' Especially an author like Lewis. But I haven’t.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company.