N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The grueling testimonies from CEO John Stumpf, coupled with insights from my industry-wide research into the culture and mindsets of bankers, suggest there is a blind spot among senior leaders at Wells Fargo, as well as deterrents to speaking up among the rank and file. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

A recent UK report from The High Pay Commission sets out a multi-faceted political case — on business, economic, and social grounds — against such extreme compensation growth. At a minimum, the report should be carefully scrutinized by U.S. CEOs may be as much as 300 times the average pay today. The multiple for U.S.

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Politics Execution Report Risk Management 14

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

Thousands of web pages are filled with newsarticles from every US state that talk about city, county and state elected officials along with school boards and other elected bodies all reporting violations of the public trust. Community Involvement book Book Excerpt ethics Leadership' Medical Doctors.

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The piece, which won a Pulitzer Prize for reporter David Barstow , raised a host of personal accountability and corporate governance issues for the company. Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3 trillion in assets ,$1.1 on actual outlays and $2.5B

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. That meant Enron was able to report $3.3 Is the CEO's Inappropriate Relationship "One Risk Too Many"?

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. An index guides investors to make more informed choices.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

“You need to be self-motivated, have good organizational skills, and a strong work ethic,” explains King. “A good chunk of independent consultants — 20 to 25% — report that their first customer is their current employer,” says King. If that’s you, freelancing is probably a bad idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

where he is CEO. Here he is in early 2009 , explaining the bad parts of M&T's staggeringly good (for a bank in the middle of a global financial crisis) 2008 earnings report: [T]he specific drags on our 2008 earnings. The tanker analogy kept coming back to me as I read this week through the collected works of Robert G.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It takes you three days to write this report where it takes your team members one day.’” The Genesis team included 12 HR professionals located in the US, Mexico, China, and Germany as well as other employees from IT, finance, the office of the general counsel, and purchasing. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Major banks in the global financial system are under investigation because LIBOR rates are based on information provided by them, and JP Morgan Chase and Royal Bank of Scotland are among the institutions reported to be in settlement discussions.

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Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

When Denis Coleman was promoted from finance to management in a fast-growing electronics manufacturer, he didn’t have any experience leading a team. He took the same hard-charging approach with his direct reports. “I In college and law school, my work ethic and performance had always been excellent,” she says. “So

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Performance Review Review Case Study Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The first whistleblower — using facts — is former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford , who uncovered a huge accounting fraud at the company. In 2011, Woodford was asked to lead the Japanese maker of optical equipment, first as president (in April) then as CEO (in September). He then went public.

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Conflict of Interest CEO Asset Management Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” ” Yet the freedom bestowed on corporations by Citizens United comes with serious risk.

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