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Future Leaders at Harvard Fail the Test

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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I did not see the thought anywhere in the news that it is a sad irony about the Harvard students accused of cheating: the course was Introduction to Congress!!! That’s just my view. What’s yours?

Cheating, Congress, education, Harvard, Leadership Development

CEO and Owner Motivations

Monday, June 11, 2012

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Many big company CEOs (disproportionate among operating companies) are portrayed in the press as driven by selfish pursuit of power and money at everyone else’s expense, while a few are reported as (temporary) stewards of the enterprise. Many small business owners are shown to be checkbook managers, pinching pennies when a game-changing investment opportunity presents […]

CEO, Entrepreneur, Leadership, motivations, small business, values

FreeFall: Our Flawed Response to the Financial Crisis

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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Joseph Stiglitz is one of the few economists who identified the bubble and predicted the bubble would burst. So we went to hear him interviewed last night (note: the appearance was, in part, to promote his new book – “FREEFALL”). By way of background, we were interviewed on Market Watch at the time Stan O’Neal […]

bailout, economic crisis, Economic recovery, economy, financial reform

Nightmare Come True on Wall Street

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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On January 31, 2008 I wrote about the sub-prime mess predicting the formation of the IPA, the investor protection agency (IPA sounded more interesting than CPA, though I believed consumer protection would be in its charter). I feared that a significant number of powerful CEOs intolerant of their own risk-management professionals would bring regulation upon […]

Consumer Protection Agency, economic crisis, financial system reform, Pecora Commission, wall street

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