Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Instead, they will conform in order to please their bosses. You know the rest.

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Budgeting Banking Ethics Commitment 285

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In 2012, a JP Morgan Chase & Co trader, nicknamed the London Whale , led the Chief Investment Office to lose $6.2 For example, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, said that since 2012 his bank hired an additional 13,000 people to work in the area of compliance. billion from a series of high-risk trades.

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Compliance Company Self-aware Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." A few of the bullet points: • Banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have $1.5 trillion in capital — the highest capital levels in the history of American banking. • The largest U.S.

Finance 13

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

In late 2012, Bank of America announced that it was preparing to add more restrictions to its work-from-home program, reportedly to increase efficiency. For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. It''s not innovation. Recent events confirm this.

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Morale Class Cooper Ethics 10