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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. Reputable firms will have robust Non-Disclosure Agreements and Privacy Policies and take extra care to work with their partners to protect your sensitive data, like contact information, finances, and formal resumes.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” But what about peer review?

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

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