Archive for November, 2007

SOX squeezes supply chains

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Sarbanes-Oxley crimps supply chains. New evidence shows has it has an impact on production cycle times, information technology investment, supply chain performance, and market competitiveness.

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The Age Blogs: Management Line

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

What are some of the managemetn lessons we can learn from the movies?

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Darling regrets

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

What a scandal with the two computer discs carrying the private information of 25 million child benefit claimants in Britain going missing. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is under pressure to do the honorable thing and resign

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Subprime panic sets in

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

What impact will subprime have on the US economy? Are the dangers over-stated? Or is the OECD right when it warns that the losses could flow into hundreds of billions of dollars?

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Questions from ethics classes

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Here is a list of frequently asked questions you get at leadership training workshops focusing on ethics.

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Training moral leaders

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Can we train moral leaders? Harvard Business School seems to think so. But to do it, they need to teach business leaders to embrace ambiguity, uncertainty and not having all the answers.

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GAO slates SEC, again

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The Government Accountability Office has slated the SEC for having shoddy internal controls and material weaknesses, yet again

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The Age Blogs: Management Line

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Let’s all have lunches every Friday. Good team building exercise. Translated that means nobody is getting a raise, enjoy the pizza. How do we translate boss-speak?

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Subprime pay packages

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Investors might have lost a fortune with Wall Street’s top banks writing off billions in trading losses related to the credit crunch. But the ones who are really cleaning up are the financial professionals who are set to take home record bonuses this year.

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Keeping up with the Joneses: bubbles and herding behavior

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The subprime mess is just one example of what happens in a bubble. And now evidence suggests that bubbles are created by people just wanting to keep up with the Joneses. Investors fear being poor when everyone around them is rich.

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