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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. Risk modeling in the banks grew out of probability theory.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. ” But the Bank of England begs to differ , saying that the “vast majority of reserves are unburnable.” Financing the clean economy. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On