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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. To understand Dimon's blindness, let's look at a quick history of the trading debacle.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

And while luck plays a much bigger role in explaining business success than managers like to believe, as Daniel Kahneman points out, the examples here clearly demonstrate that you can always give luck a helping hand. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price. Mergers & acquisitions'