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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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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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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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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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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08 percent increase in per capita growth after the overthrow of an autocrat.

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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.”.