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How Business Can Build and Maintain Trust

Harvard Business

Businesses must manage it as carefully as they do their balance sheets. Trust is fragile.

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Simple Ethics Rules for Better Risk Management

Harvard Business

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Creating Leadership Trust that Inspires People

Rick Conlow

Products, the balance sheet and customers are the priority. Give it a “thumbs up” for focusing on ethics and character. As a result, business executives are rated in the bottom one third. Too many leaders don’t value employees based on how they treat them. Unfortunately, employees are often an afterthought.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Even with about $700 billion in capital available in the United States and hundreds of billions of dollars more around the globe, property and casualty insurers’ balance sheets are too small to cover all the potential losses from a global intelligent device disaster. AI International Protocols.

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Swiss Bank Hits Customers With Negative Interest Rates; Crazy? What About Velocity?

MishTalk

The bank describes itself as an ethical organisation focused on backing firms investing in social and environmental projects. With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 The big Swiss banks passed on some of the pain from the Swiss central bank’s -0.75

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures?