HR Digest

AUGUST 15, 2021

SAMPLE LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION FOR A PROMOTION. I have supervised Ms Smith for more than two years in her role as a marketing specialist, and I have always been impressed with her work ethic and leadership skills. Address: Date: To: Name of the person. Designation of the person. I would like to recommend Ms.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Sample Script: Making it Conscious, Not Confrontational The set up: You and your team are working together on a presentation that’s due in less than twenty-four hours. As you can see, offering a number of choices at every turn allows those involved to retain some measure of control, which is essential to keeping the situation from escalating.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Most of us are aware of the stock market, but stocks are from the only way to invest. We can look at online reviews and often play with a free sample of their software. Markets will always fluctuate, and a knee-jerk reaction can sometimes be worse than taking no action. Investing can take many different forms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Are people more ethical or less ethical when they negotiate with a foreigner instead of a fellow countryman? and China, conducted with coauthor Chao Wang, we looked at how likely people were to use unethical or ethically questionable tactics, like telling lies or offering bribes, depending on who they were negotiating with.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

The stock market had more than doubled in the previous five years , and the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical? Our question stemmed from the idea that prosperous times are often linked to ethical missteps.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

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LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

Prior to entering the private sector as a researcher and consultant, Rick spent a number of years as a university professor where he taught courses in research methods, statistics, marketing, communication, and psychology. My company’s leaders are completely ethical and honest. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. It is reasonable to anticipate that emerging regulations might be met with market pull for services involving algorithmic accountability. We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. We measured their firm’s value by Tobin’s Q, a ratio between market value of assets to book value of assets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. We'd spent most of the launch money on sampling and couponing. They throttled a potential David — or Goliath — in its test-marketing crib. Clorox found out. "Do

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. I tested whether graduating in a recession did in fact temper narcissism, using data from a representative sample of over 30,000 Americans. adamkaz/Getty Images. Similar effects even emerged among CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Fourth, evaluating “scholarship” primarily by counting professors’ “A” journal publications also could encourage academics to engage in questionably ethical research practices in order to produce results that will be accepted by these journals. Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Their advice can be invaluable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. In the sample of firms we used, KLD scores were positively correlated with firms’ incomes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Informality, bootlegging, and gray market intrapreneurship may be vital cultural ingredients for innovation. Think of it as exceptionally targeted marketing. The ethics are as provocative and problematical as the pragmatics. You have to know your market. Do tactics like these inhabit an ethical gray area?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. Randal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Among the companies in our sample, share prices declined by a market-adjusted 3.1% (1.1% Of the 38 companies in our sample. Questionable financial practices was the only category of behavior that almost uniformly resulted in termination; all other behaviors resulted in both outcomes (termination and retention) across our sample.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Clearly, web scraping has ethical and legal implications, particularly when firms request applicants’ social media passwords as part of the vetting process. How do these newer approaches to assessing talent compare with the more traditional ways, such as interviews, resumes, psychometric tests, work samples, and reference checks?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. Negative results are usually not published at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

These characteristics are prior success, intelligence, work ethic, and coach-ability. At the end of their first month, each new hire must pass a 150-question exam, as well as six different certification tests on the HubSpot product, our sales methodology, and the concept of inbound marketing. These are not cold, purchased leads.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

One of her primary duties during the summer would be helping him with market research by reaching out to other technology firms, including direct competitors, for information on products, services offered, customers, sales, and other data. Moon with contact lists and sample inquiries attached. Put It in Perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Finance is different from other fields in two ways: Financial markets provide near immediate and easily quantified feedback, and the consequences of decisions can be inflated by leverage. Finance teaches us that it is nearly impossible to isolate the effects of luck and skill in financial markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

To ensure the safety of passengers and workers on buses in the UK, drivers have been given swab kits so that if a passenger spits, for example, they can take a sample that is then compared with a national DNA registry. Policies like this have led to a 50% drop in crime in Merseyside, Liverpool.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

You should also inquire if the data is unbiased, since sample size alone is not sufficient to guarantee its validity. Even seemingly harmless experiments may carry ethical or social implications with real financial consequences. Finally, ask if the data scientist has enough data to answer the question.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. As economist Paul Samuelson is said to have said , "We have but one sample of history." I tend to think it doesn't apply for macroeconomics in general.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recommend you devote the bulk of your marketing budget to developing excellent content and lots of it, with some additional funds set aside for design, production, and maintenance. 9) Define your universe of clients Brainstorm ways to market your business online and truly dominate your defined, targeted universe.

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