Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. The old "efficient markets" idea that stock prices perfectly measure future returns has long been discredited.)

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996).

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Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 12

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.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59