Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis

Name: Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis
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ISBN: 9780199915996

ISBN-10: 0199915997

ISBN-13: 9780199915996

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas H. Stanton

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Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book builds on the author's interviews and access to internal documents from over a dozen major financial companies, investigates their workings, reveals what went wrong and discovers a remedy. A critical difference between successful and unsuccessful firms is a culture that encourages respectful challenge, what the book calls "constructive dialogue". At successful firms top management engaged in constructive dialogue with the board, a strong management team, and the chief risk officer, among others, in making a decision; firms that failed often featured overbearing (or distracted) CEOs or unit heads, supine boards,…

Book details

List price: $91.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.37" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232



Preface


Acknowledgments



Repairing Our Public and Private Institutions: A National Imperative



Dynamics of the Financial Crisis



Coping with the Crisis



Company Governance and the Financial Crisis



Risk Management and the Financial Crisis



Company Organization, Business Models, and the Crisis



Supervision and Regulation of Financial Firms



Hyman Minsky: Will it Happen Again?



Governance and Management: Lessons Learned



Governance and Management: Beyond the Financial Crisis


Table of Acronyms


Notes


References


Index