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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Unless You're a Working Mom)

Harvard Business Review

In a 2010 survey, for example, only 25% of French employers said they were "strongly interested in hiring mothers," and 41% feared there would be "less flexibility in the schedules of mothers who worked" (they didn''t have this fear when it came to men). BONUS BITS: What''s in the Piggy Bank. —Andy O''Connell.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. We were independent in a sense that no other agency of government can countermand the actions of the Federal Open Market Committee.