Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. naqiewei/Getty Images. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Every high performer needs both. They will represent the products more consistently.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Stakeholders want to know how organizations are affecting the environment, how treat and interact with their employees, clients and communities, and if they conduct their business ethically. Again, this requires a shift in mindset from “checking boxes,” or seeing ESG as a burden, to approaching ESG as an opportunity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? The arrangement works well because many of the projects are closely related to promoting efficiency and increasing productivity, as well as supporting Transdev competitive position.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This work will likely become even more important as less-transparent algorithms like deep learning become more common.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass. The Moral Frame.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Artificial Intelligence has become a transformative force in the finance industry , revolutionizing how financial institutions operate, make decisions, and interact with customers. This article explores six (6) ways AI is being integrated into finance and the significant impact it is having on the industry.

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Finance Financial Data Banking 78

Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2023

While AI will be able to perform many tasks more efficiently and accurately than humans, there are certain areas where machines will always fall short. Ethical Decision Making As AI becomes increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, it is crucial to ensure that it is used in a responsible and ethical way.

Emotional Intelligence 88

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). These ethical failures are often not the result of one "bad actor" alone but systemic issues.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For instance, AI-powered assistants are being used in the finance sector to monitor transactions, detect anomalies, and even flag potential compliance risks. As AI agents take over more administrative work, businesses can allocate resources more efficiently and drive productivity to new heights.

Software 88

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This enables DeepSeek to develop scalable models more efficiently, reducing the cost of deployment while maintaining strong performance. Others, however, argue that DeepSeeks reliance on OpenAIs research and methods crosses ethical and legal boundaries. A dispute between OpenAI and DeepSeek has escalated for two main reasons.

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