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Matthew Bishop, LinkedIn, September 15, 2014 Adam Smith, the great Scottish economist and philosopher, famously described market forces as “an invisible hand” that seemed to drive businesses to deliver what society needs. The financial crash of 2008...
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Penny Crossman, Bank Technology News, September 15, 2014 Technical problems at Simple show the tricky position of the digital-only neobanks: They depend on systems (sometimes antiquated ones) run by others, yet they’re the faceless names bearing...
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Andrew O’Connell, “The Daily Stat,” HBR Blog Network, August 13, 2014 Coaches frequently make strategic changes in response to irrelevant factors, especially after a loss, no matter how narrow or meaningless, says a group of...
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Richard J. Tofel, Medium, September 12, 2014 This article’s author takes a look at Rick Perlstein’s series on the triumph of the right in modern American politics which suggests that the loser in 1964 was ultimately the winner — and that, as so many...
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Andrew O’Connell, “The Daily Stat,” HBR Blog Network, August 12, 2014 The more a job interviewer tries to “sell” a candidate on working at the company, the less able he or she is to judge the candidate’s worthiness. Firms would...
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Michael Rosenwald, Columbia Journalism Review, August 19, 2014 The best-sourced reporter covering Apple Inc., one of the world’s most secretive companies, is a 20-year-old junior at the University of Michigan. His name is Mark Gurman. He makes more than six...