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A More Effective Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and numerous corporate scandals, a director now confronts not only complex oversight accountability, but also personal risk and liability. Foundational — survival — boards focus on compliance; they play it safe. Clearly, this is a job not for the faint of heart.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. In one word: No.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. Other local EDs actually had betting pools on how long it would take us to go back on diversion after we came off. Virtually no patients leave our ED without being seen, and we are never, ever on ambulance diversion.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.