Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It has given me the ability to buy this computer, my writing tool in sharing my coaching, teaching concepts and to write my book, Blast Off! When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Allison’s new book, Blast Off! It can give you leverage to capture a life-long dream. How can this be true?

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Press Release Learning-by-Doing Discount PR 162

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This escalation illustrates a significant change: highly expensive scandals across business sectors , not just in single companies, and this is reflected in the January 7th agreement by major banks to pay $8.5 Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. billion due to derelict mortgage and foreclosure processes.

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave a speech Monday in which he used the word “culture” 45 times. I’m hoping they mark the beginning of a change in how regulators think about reining in law-breaking and excessive risk-taking at banks. After the book was published, Dudley got in touch.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Bank regulators in particular have been depicted as captives for years, and have even taken to describing themselves as such. Still, there is some context that’s inevitably missing, and as a former banking-regulation reporter for the American Banker , I feel called to fill some of it in.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. The methods presented in the book will help you build a motivated and responsive team within your workgroup. People are the core of this leadership style.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

banks can use in their business. that has now grown into a book. According to a 1992 study by the Government Accountability Office, the average leverage ratio for the top 13 investment banks was 27-to-1 during 1991 (up from 18-to-1 in 1990). drop in asset prices would wipe out the equity of the bank. Over the summer, U.S.

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Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. What is their longevity?

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

I remember being repelled by how traders at Salomon Brothers referred to their clients in Michael Lewis' 1989 book Liar's Poker. But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. This doesn't necessarily make Goldman any different from the rest of Wall Street.

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Reference Bond Banking Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. Smart men and women in finance and corporate law always grow rich, or at least well-to-do.

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