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Leadership and career
February 1, 2017

How to Create a Social Responsibility Program that Helps Retain Millennial Employees

It's clear that millennials will have a huge impact on tomorrow's businesses. This generation represents $2.45 trillion in spending power, reports Adweek, and according to Omnicom Group's Cone Communications, 70 percent of them will spend more on brands that support causes they care about. Millennials want to take part in…
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Leadership and career
January 30, 2017

Defining Culture: Can Firm Culture Be Regulated?

By: Michael Manley Culture is defined as a way of thinking, behaving or working that exists in a place or organization (such as a business). Firm culture has long been a target of regulators of the financial services industry as the culprit in many scandals. In that regard, in its…
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Leadership and career
January 25, 2017

Motivating Ethical Mountain Climbing

By: Jim Nortz This post was originally shared in the ACC Docket and is republished here with permission from the author. Last year, I got a crazy idea in my head. I decided it would be "fun" to ride my mountain bike 100 miles on the path along the Erie…
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Leadership and career
January 18, 2017

Privacy is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers

By: Robert Zafft “War is too important to be left to the generals.” – Georges Clemenceau Imagine going out on a date and having to bring along your little brother or sister. It's not that their presence is overbearing (unlike, say, your father’s). It’s that they're eager, interested and generally clueless.…
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Leadership and career
January 16, 2017

Ethics Warning Signs to Monitor

By: Jim DeLoach Over the long term, the credibility of an organization and the integrity of its leaders and decision-makers ultimately define its success or failure. The board of directors, the executive management team and other senior leaders have three responsibilities with respect to the organization's code of conduct: ♦…
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Leadership and career
January 13, 2017

The Importance of Diversity on Corporate Boards

By: Michael Volkov This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. If there is one area where I would like to see improvement in the corporate governance world, it has to be at the corporate board level. While companies are expanding internal compliance programs, companies fail…
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Leadership and career
January 6, 2017

Don’t Let Employees Break Your Engagement

By: Linda Henman In virtually every industry, productivity ebbs and flows, depending on myriad factors. When we see these fluctuations, we rightly conclude that they have occurred because of an increase or decrease in employment engagement. We also hear countless suggestions for getting this right—for correcting the ebbs and banking…
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Leadership and career
January 4, 2017

How Mentors and Sponsors Help Women Succeed in Business

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says, "if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India." I spoke with Martine Liautaud, founder of the…
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Leadership and career
December 23, 2016

Sharing Economy: The Next Frontier for Business Travel?

By: Austin Klein There are many names for the Ubers, Lyfts and Airbnbs of today – common classifications include the sharing economy, gig economy and on-demand economy. These services have paved the way for innovation in everyday travel by reducing the cost for consumers and easing the accessibility of services.…
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Leadership and career
December 21, 2016

Tips to Minimize Risk While Managing Growth

By: Bjorn Reynolds If you're considering global expansion, you're in good company. According to an American Express survey, nearly half of executives polled from businesses sized between $5 million and $1 billion said growing their business was their most important priority. And additionally, with 95 percent of the world's consumers…
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