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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

These sectoral scandals raise profound issues for business leaders: in a highly competitive global economy, in which some sectors are flooded with money, how do you assess sector-wide integrity risks and achieve a culture of corporate accountability before , not after, bad behavior occurs?

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

The pay for CEOs is many multiples of the companies' average pay today — e.g. 63 times at BP and 74 times at Barclays (four or five times greater than 30 years ago). CEOs may be as much as 300 times the average pay today. The multiple for U.S. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). (See

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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. Although the media has spoken loosely about a company "clawing back" pay, there are, in fact, different ways to hold responsible individuals to financial account.

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