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

Harvard Business Review

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Why the Decline in Corporate Statesmanship?

Harvard Business Review

And the Business Roundtable , picking up where it left off in the summer of 2011, has continued its ineffectual pleas for the president and Congress to find a solution to the deficit , while failing to offer a single concrete solution. Three developments during the 1980s proved to be pivotal.

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

Harvard Business Review

Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors. This is exactly what happened during 2010 and 2011 as the global economy was bouncing back.) Companies should anticipate this trend and start developing “value pricing” and less expensive products. automobile industry. The China-Sparked Crisis.

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Ending the Shareholder Lawsuit Gravy Train

Harvard Business Review

These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.” but are still, as is clear from the chart below, costing companies a lot of money.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. Several committees competed with each other for the spotlight.