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Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?

Harvard Business Review

When boards don't succeed but fail, as so many have, the terms of the debate shift from how companies can best govern themselves to how regulators and other actors should become more deeply involved in governing them. All this in addition to stiffening of long-standing regulation of markets [e.g. Let us not over-praise O'Neil.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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