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Corporate Wrongdoing - latest BestofBiz briefing

Corporate wrongdoing

Several recent pieces of UK legislation have significantly tightened legal regulation of corporate, director and senior manager behaviour.

Corporate bodies and individual directors alike are increasingly becoming legally responsible not just for their actions but also for the actions of their employees, staff and agents - in short, anyone authorised to act on behalf of the company.

The days when directors or corporate bodies could escape being held accountable for corporate wrongdoing by hiding behind the wrongdoing of rogue employees seem to be coming to an end....etc

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Collaborative intelligence: Wikis in the corporate arena

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Collaborative intelligence is also known as mass collaboration, open online collaboration or user-generated content. The idea arose out of the open source (OS) software movement. The aspiration: ad-hoc groups of like-minded people, working in loosely organised online communities are capable of achieving results previously achievable only by highly organised teams of specialised experts. The main tool: a wiki.

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The chairman of which airline described it as 'comatose' ?

Who recently described private equity as 'worse than the mafia'?

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Women at the top

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Following on from the 2003 BestofBiz briefing on "Women as Corporate Leaders" in the corporate environment, we still find:

• Women’s networking groups proliferating
• Women in business conferences
• High-ranking women taking legal action against their companies for gender bias in pay and promotion
• Women CEOs of top organisations can still be named on one hand
• It is special news when a women is appointed to a top job
• The proportion of women studying for an MBA at London Business School has stuck at 25-28% for over 20 years.

Why is gender in corporate life still an issue?

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New product innovation and pricing policies

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This report looks at the new product development process, followed by a review of different theoretical methods of establishing competitive pricing policies. Secondary data which should be gathered before setting the pricing of the new product is discussed, and examples given.

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e-retail is e-detail

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The internet is now a mainstream retail medium, channel and industry. Its role and usage is central to the daily activities of most people in developed countries (and its influence is set to rise in the developing world) including buying products and services. Nearly every retailer has a web presence of some sort. Nearly everything can now be researched and/or bought online.

Retailers are adopting an integrated multi-channel sales approach: physical store, catalogue, online to reflect consumers evolving multi-channel shopping patterns.

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From corporate social responsibility to social enterprises

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is now moving beyond the 'we must be seen as being responsible' stage. Newer terms and concepts are emerging including: corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility, business sustainable development, sustainability, corporate accountability, social return on investment, social enterprises and social entrepreneurs. Debates are taking place. How should executives frame their thinking about corporate social responsibility? Should the entire enterprise be realigned to serve social purpose? Or should it be back to basics: the business of business is business?

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Corporate terrorist threats

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Emerging as one of the largest and most frequent targets of terrorism, the commercial sector has proved largely unprepared to cope with the onset of an attack. This 5-step strategy was created to better understand the threat and then prepare, protect, and constantly revise to manage and minimize organizational vulnerability.

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