Commentary & Opinion

March 9, 2010 Analyzing ‘Corporate Risk Oversight Principles’

Source:Compliance Week.com

It’s way too early for nostalgia about the financial crisis. But one of the most telling anecdotes coming out of this period was from John Thain, remarking to the Wall Street Journal on his time as CEO of Merrill Lynch. “Merrill...

March 4, 2010 Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

Source:Working Knowledge - Harvard Business School

Toyota's ever-widening problems are a tragic case study in how not to lead in crisis. Under the media spotlight, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder, went into hiding and sent American CEO Jim Lentz to make apologies....

March 2, 2010 Ordinary stuff labeled scary

Source:News Observer.com

DETROIT -- At least once a day, I wonder whether the stuff in my house is killing my son. I tell myself I'm being unnecessarily anxious. (It wouldn't be the first time.) But the authors of a new book would say I'm not.

February 24, 2010 What Toyota Could Learn from Tiger

Source:BNET.com

As I write, Toyota is under the hot lights of a Congressional hearing, and it’s just the first round of a series of House and Senate investigations into what the company knows and when it knew it. How Toyota handles itself in the...

February 24, 2010 The US bank crisis continues

Source:Business Spectator.com.au

If a country’s economic health depends on having a sound financial system, then it’s truly worrying to see that the number of US banks on the brink of collapse is continuing to rise.

February 23, 2010 Who's Minding Risk?

Source:CFO

Monday-morning quarterbacks pinned the blame for the financial crisis largely on excessive risk taking, particularly at large financial institutions. Subsequent calls for regulatory reform have increasingly included nonfinancial...

February 19, 2010 What happened to swine flu pandemic?

Source:Queens Chronicle

What happened to the swine flu? The city, colleges and area hospitals were gearing up for a major outbreak last fall that never materialized. Today, it’s barely on the radar.

February 9, 2010 Henry Paulson 'On the Brink'

Source:NewsWeek

Investment bankers are among the least reflective of financial birds. They deal with the problem at hand without asking too many questions about how it got there. One of their favorite trills is: "It is what it is." So it's no...

February 8, 2010 Lessons from the swine flu pandemic

Source:Los Angeles Times

It's too soon to say if the swine flu pandemic is over, but health experts have begun to look back and survey the damage. One of the lessons from the pandemic is that pregnant women are at particularly high risk for severe...

February 2, 2010 Davos Is Done; Bankers Are Stung

Source:Forbes

Davos is done for another year. Last year, in the depths of the financial crisis, many bankers stayed away. This year they might have wished they'd never come back. Banker-bashing, and particular big-bank banker-bashing, was the...

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