N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 324

Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Do you feel a sense of anxiety rising up from your stomach to your throat, or a heavy, weighted pressure in your chest?

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Press Release Learning-by-Doing Discount PR 162

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. 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. JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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Trends Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Case Study 83

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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Bottom-up Case Study Motivation Letter 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2011

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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Bottom-up Stress Case Study Newsletter 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. Senior leaders were so focused on financial impact that they couldn’t see the ethical damage.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2011

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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Stress Bottom-up Bond Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Bank regulators in particular have been depicted as captives for years, and have even taken to describing themselves as such. Still, there is some context that’s inevitably missing, and as a former banking-regulation reporter for the American Banker , I feel called to fill some of it in.

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Banking Conflict of Interest Hedge Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The banking industry is mired in a state of permanent crisis. Some firms, like Deutsche Bank, are still trying to clamber out of holes they dug before the financial meltdown, negotiating multibillion-dollar settlements with the Department of Justice. We have entered the world of ultra specialists. They also develop transferable skills.

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Career Banking Crisis Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism. Wilmers, also known as his annual messages to the shareholders of Buffalo-based M&T Bank Corp. where he is CEO.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

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.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Consider the following examples: In 2007-2008, a former Credit Suisse Group AG trader committed wire fraud and manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities to enhance performance and boost year-end bonuses. We rationalize our bad behaviors to such an extent that we do not realize we are crossing ethical boundaries until it is too late.

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Compliance Company Self-aware Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Admittedly, guilt culture showed little enthusiasm for criminally sanctioning executives involved in the 2008 banking crisis. Three former Anglo Irish Bank executives were sentenced to just a few years for conspiring to mislead investors, depositors, and lenders. financial crisis. The fraudulent €7.2

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Reputation Crisis Loyalty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

On a recent trip to Africa I was greatly impressed by the African Leadership Academy (ALA), an extraordinary institution founded in 2008, which offers a highly selective two-year pan-African pre-university program. Out of 4,000 applicants per year, only 100 are chosen.)

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. This was apparent in the role the big investment banks played in bringing on the 2007/2008 financial crisis: were they advisers? hedge funds?

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S. pharma companies equaled the total for the other 490 in the Fortune 500? corporate profits was heading toward something north of 40%.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Shawn was immediately called in as an expert by the world’s largest banks to help restart forward progress. In 2007, Shawn founded Good Think Inc.

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Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50