Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

I observed how they motivated and inspired their teams to achieve something ambitious and meaningful. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units.

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Organization Team How To Career 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996).

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59