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A Conversation with Canada’s “D&I Dude”

Experience to Lead

It’s vital to the longevity of your organization to consider how you can combat systemic and overt oppression through your IDEA policy and advocacy. I think of TD Bank’s “Leadership as a Champion of LGBTA Engagement” case amongst many others (LGBTA stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Allies).

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. There was a lot of uncertainty and debate last summer and fall over whether President Obama would appoint Janet Yellen or Larry Summers as Federal Reserve chair. pretty much ever since.

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Stanford Medical School's Plan to Attract More Female Leaders

Harvard Business Review

However, the utilization rates for these policies were low, and they were often seen as incompatible with professional norms of success. Armed with this data, SSoM is now moving forward with a comprehensive program to integrate flexibility policies as a core element of the faculty advancement process.

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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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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

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. We were independent in a sense that no other agency of government can countermand the actions of the Federal Open Market Committee.

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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Unless You're a Working Mom)

Harvard Business Review

There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. And you can have a successful career even after you decline a promotion or other type of advancement. BONUS BITS: What''s in the Piggy Bank. There''s the Rub. —Andy O''Connell.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.