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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs. Here a few notable examples. But that would be a mistake. This has all changed.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

It's not about a bank. Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. This scandal isn't about price-fixing.

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50 Companies That Get Twitter – and 50 That Don’t

Harvard Business Review

We supplemented our model by using an algorithm and dataset developed by University of Pennsylvania to identify the apparent gender of our subjects and their followers. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.