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APRIL 5, 2019

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. In the ten months since those two meetings there’s been a marked improvement in the focus and energy of the management team and broader organization.

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COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

equity sales at the time — he was one of the highest-ranking African-American executives in the company — but Will wanted him to give up that position and become the bank's first managing director of diversity recruiting, reporting directly to the CEO. Charles was running U.S. Charles shook his head. This is a business.

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Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. So, for instance, in the course of the financial crisis, it was said that banks play in the casino. If only that would be true — then they could calculate the risks. But he feeds you.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth. This was crazy, we initially thought. On my part, I have a fresher and deeper appreciation for African entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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. ” “Just don’t forget we’re in construction, not banking, Derek.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8