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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs. Lawyers were much less aggressive in accrual accounting relative to industry levels.

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Consultant Ninja: The Financial Crisis is a Wicked Problem.

Consultant Ninja

Wall Street, aka American financial industry, is global. What US has is the most liquid capital market; enhanced by the fact that US Dollar is the de facto monetary standard on this planet, most economies do hold a significant portion of their wealth in US Dollar. First I would like to make a distinction between Global and American.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business

Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. There’s thus been a lot of activity on what you might call the “input side.” respectively.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.