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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

Businesses should consider investing in legal expertise or compliance software to keep track of applicable laws and regulations, and it’s especially important for industries that are heavily regulated, such as healthcare, finance, and food service. Implementing a robust internal compliance program is also key.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. Here is a brief discussion of how the alliance works in key areas: Performance.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

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. Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”?

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage. In a large organization, successful risk management requires all hands on deck.

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

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. But these debates have, so far, had little political impact. per cent in 1979. (In

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior.

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If the Auditors Sign Off, Does That Make It Okay?

Harvard Business Review

Further, he convinced himself that his actions were acceptable because they had been signed off by the firm's lawyers, accountants, and board and were disclosed in the financial reports. Are these deals true risk transfers or are they cosmetic? He told himself his actions were systemic, it is the way the game is played.