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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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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. Its purpose: to remedy unfair windfalls.

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Set clear policies. For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. Appropriate risk, compensation, and financial policies will set the incentives and boundaries for employee behavior. Create a risk culture. This extends to the board room.

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3 Big Economic Ideas in Waiting

Harvard Business Review

” He was making the point that it is always hard to summon the will to enact big, new policy ideas, even when they appear perfectly logical. Another long-time Brookings Senior Fellow (and public policy servant extraordinaire) Alice Rivlin briefly agreed on a premium support plan several years ago with Rep. Medicare vouchers.

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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. government securities to keep interest rates down — in the process generating lots of monetary stimulus — and kept dictating monetary policy after the war. History has not judged his tenure well.

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Bonuses Are Good, But Clawbacks Make Them Better

Harvard Business Review

The disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO was stripped of his knighthood "for services to banking." Barely four years after Goodwin's elevation, his bank — Great Britain's wealthiest — effectively collapsed and was nationalized. Goodwin had brought the honors systems into disrepute; his award was thus annulled.