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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

Our trust in this institution is so strong that it is rare to find someone with a checking account in a bank that lacks an FDIC placard in the window. RepublicBank merged with InterFirst Corporation in June 1986, and formed First RepublicBank Corporation, the largest bank holding company in the Southwest at the time.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Take Wells Fargo as an example: Managers were rewarded for the number of accounts they opened and managed.

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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Some firms hired expert industry consultants to help them find ideas outside their firms, but these individuals, too, had (and still have) limited knowledge, and in some cases conflicts of interest. But these challenges become a lot more manageable when the economic pie is growing rapidly.

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. IT management Information & technology Risk management'

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Congressional Hearings.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Posen had lots of interesting things to say about what the law got right, what it made worse, and what the best criticisms of it are. His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” For more on what the law does, go here.