Opinion
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Getting the measure of knowledge
Jan Mouritsen, professor at Copenhagen Business School and Per Bukh, professor at Aarhus School of Business, look at how intellectual…
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Show-and-Tell in Real Time
Your boss asks you to make an important financial presentation to a group of potential shareholders who are not particularly…
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The new trend in offshore outsourcing
The concept of business process outsourcing typically conjures up images of inexpensively hired college graduates dialing away at call centers…
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Preparing for Future Leadership Positions
If you want to one day become a manager or executive, it's never too early to get started. Even if…
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E-learning: business myth or business necessity?
If you think back to the top of the dotcom bubble, the future looked very different then. Visionaries went around…
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Using Software to Sniff Out Fraud
In the 1920s, Frank Benford, a physicist at General Electric (GE), discovered an astonishing mathematical law: In just about any…
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Bold Interview Tactics to Make a Favorable Impression
It's likely that the other people applying for the position you want have read the same tips for interviews you…
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Codes of Conduct for CFOs and Others
Much of the post-enron debate has focused upon the particular governance role of the non-executive or "independent" directors, but less…
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Marketing Yourself: It May Just Be Job One
Career challenges that arise during an economic slowdown can be overwhelming, but there are steps one can take to improve…
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IAS 39: Making securitization transparent
This article reviews the latest revisions to the standard and challenges institutions may face in adapting existing risk management techniques…