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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

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. Always ensure that the handling and storage of your data are secure. Similarly, scrutinize the job descriptions provided.

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Academic Reputation Matters When It Comes To Getting Published

The Horizons Tracker

Smith co-authored an article with Sabiou Inoua, a junior scientist, and submitted it to the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. The article was reviewed by over 500 academics, but they weren’t all told that the authors were the same. “As scientists, we are constantly working to improve our methods and processes.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

He is a globally recognized microeconomist and author of seven books and has taught organizational economics, accounting, and finance at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School for more than forty years. Zimmerman , Ph.D., is the co-author of Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters; Business Practices.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. This involved several more years and another 1,800 people, 60% of whom were union employees.

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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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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

But what about peer review? Almost every single nutrient,” he wrote, “has peer reviewed publications associating it with almost any out­come. Peer review is valuable, but it is not a guarantor of reliable knowledge. Many findings are entirely implausible.”.

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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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