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Tips on Investing as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

This can affect your finances as well as your reputation if the company you invest in turns out to be bad. This helps you develop a better understanding of your finances and the risk associated with the investments you want to make and create a portfolio that enhances your reputation, among other things. The Stock Market.

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Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Strategy Driven

And with unemployment rates above 9 percent, many wonder if the market turmoil will ever end. PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Charles Ferguson, director of Academy Award winning documentary, Inside Job , a film that raises red flags about the world of finance.

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The JOBS Act, Groupon, and Gullible Investors

Harvard Business Review

The accounting firms that audit financial statements were subjected to tougher conflict-of-interest rules and oversight by a new federal agency. Such regulations, if they succeed in increasing the information flow between managements and markets, are also good news for investors in general.

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

This logic and the institutions that reinforce it, like competitive markets and the rule of law, have transformed the world and lifted billions of people from poverty. In addition, 30 states have passed laws that explicitly authorize companies to consider the interests of parties other than shareholders.

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Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology

Harvard Business Review

And yet there’s room for even more industry growth, and more savings for American consumers: a recent study my team conducted found that antiquated regulations are costing the growing solar market an additional $70 billion. To understand why, we have to start by looking at the market for solar. We wanted to know how a new U.S.

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At Olympus and Goldman Sachs, Two Very Different Whistleblowers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the SEC in 2010 had charged Goldman with misleading some of the parties to a billion dollar transaction (involving a complex derivative called a synthetic collateralized debt obligation), alleging specific facts about undisclosed conflicts of interest. Goldman settled within months for $550 million.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” But it does create more opportunities for conflict of interest between banks, including investment banks, and their customers.” We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market.