Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. This post is a great example of facing up to the expedient and popular trend of using no as a silver bullet. But are they?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Sometimes these have been imposed by government — the Glass-Steagall division between commercial banks and investment banks, for example — but often they have arisen organically. It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system. Investment banks used to all be partnerships.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. We need to look to leadership examples of truly radical, innovative, in-your-face teams like that at Nucor Steel. How sad is this?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. What should it never do?

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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 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. Ultimately, it means having an open, transparent performance-with-integrity culture that encourages but bounds business risk and that does not cut legal or ethical corners to make the numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. ” Rather than marginalizing traditionally underserved home buyers, the algorithmic system actually benefited this segment of consumers the most.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. naqiewei/Getty Images. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While the production system requires more worker skill and effort, employers have incentives to retain these valuable workers through improved working conditions. For example, we found improved compliance in India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, but no effects in China, the world’s largest exporter of apparel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Equally troublesome, almost all policies focus exclusively on payments and finances but ignore the powerful influence of careerism and other non-financial motives that may compromise objectivity far more than financial incentives. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. For example, there are organizations that provide so much autonomy and freedom in how a process is executed that customers don’t receive consistent experiences. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Examples include BlackRock, which recently acquired FutureAdvisor for a reported $150-200 million; JP Morgan’s recent partnership with Motif Investing, and UBS’ equity investment in SigFig.

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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. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2019

Unfortunately, many criminal or ethically questionable actions are taken in the name of money every single day, and in today’s increasingly litigious world this often leads to a trip to court. While that example is extreme, it does show that litigation is lurking everywhere, and a responsible person should be prepared for the worst.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. The stakes are very high. A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists. EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. Merck and Co. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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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. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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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. a survey indicated that fewer than 60% of the Secret Service personnel said they would report ethical misconduct.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Thank you for restoring trust in the system. They attempt to change through their example. Historical examples such as with world leaders like Churchill or Eisenhower are more widely known. I am not specialist but I try to learn.

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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. It takes tragedies occurring in order for the system to stand back, take focus and fix what is wrong. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

For example, application of complex financial accounting rule — FAS 133 relating to derivatives — led to expensive restatements in numerous businesses. In the past, some multi-company problems have been due to introduction of a detailed regulation or to a change in enforcement policy. The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s nothing to be gained by lashing out or putting down the system or the person delivering the review.” If your boss says you aren’t taking enough risks, ask, “Can you give me an example of a time when I should have taken the initiative but didn’t? But it’s important to “hold your emotions in check,” says Marks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Another example includes and biomimicry—using lessons Nature learned over 3.8 The Time Frame. The Moral Frame.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug. Aren’t business managers, or at least those working in the Anglo-American system of capitalism, obligated by law to maximize returns to shareholders? How should you make this decision? But perhaps managers have no choice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

With ethical, networked leaders involved, a franchise model is the best way to keep an organization running in an unstable area where uncertainty or lack of trust can make it challenging for foreign organizations to operate and deploy funds. Find ethical, networked leaders at the local level. How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Twin Debates.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Allow me to recommend some categories: Leadership (of course), Success, Theology, History, Economics, the Classics, Politics and Freedom, Finances and Investing.  As books began to come through system, I was amazed at how my hunger to read grew exponentially! Read broadly across many genres. I am looking forward to the explosion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

They are key both to cash flow which finances dividends, and to "net income" that drives stock price which, in turn, benefits shareholders (heavily American) — especially older individuals who are either direct investors or who rely on pension funds. Worker Transition at Home.

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