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The Lingering Cost of Instant Fashion

Harvard Business

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

STEEPLED: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical, and Demographic. Property rights, including protection of intellectual property (trade marks, copyright, patents, registered designs, trade secrets, software and circuit layouts). Prohibitions, taboos, and ethical issues.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. It can’t just be left to the PR department — the necessary messaging is too likely to be entangled with technical, legal, and ethical issues to compartmentalize it to any one department.

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