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

Strategy Driven

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. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

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Ending the Shareholder Lawsuit Gravy Train

Harvard Business Review

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

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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. CEO tenure dropped precipitously, more than 25 percent between 1980 and 2000.