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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

Five years later, under the banner of "The Girl Effect," Nike Foundation and its many partners, such as the NoVo Foundation the World Bank, DFID and the UN Foundation, have successfully influenced the global agenda and helped launch multi-million dollar programs to empower adolescent girls around the world. Early results are encouraging.

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Don’t Blame the Apple and Exonerate the Tree

Harvard Business Review

That comes after a nearly $1 billion deal just a few days ago to end civil investigations into several matters including the bank’s multi-billion-dollar “ London Whale ” trading loss. Then there are the two former bank employees that authorities have been trying to arrest ( one successfully ) for their roles in the London Whale events.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. 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.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.)

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

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The Economic Record of the McCain Presidency

Harvard Business Review

Of course, over the past four years Republican economic opinion has shifted rightward, so one might want to consider another alternative world — call it DeMint ia — where all the big banks were allowed to fail, government spending was cut dramatically, and the Federal Open Market Committee was replaced with a simple gold standard.

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