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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Cross-cultural differences. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business

The settlement stems from the bank’s employees allegedly opening more than 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers’ permission. ” That speaks to why they did this in the first place: To meet sales quotas and earn incentives. .” Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business

The post-scandal scrutiny of Wells Fargo’s culture has so far focused on the high-pressure sales environment that drove employees to create as many as two million fake accounts. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Managers Aren’t Doing Enough to Encourage Whistleblowing

Harvard Business

The Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal drew a lot of media attention, particularly around the intense pressure on staff to meet sales goals. But far less attention has been paid to how the bank actively discouraged whistleblowing. Some employees even claimed that they were fired for calling the internal ethics hotline.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Corporate and Institutional Banking. Retail and Business Banking. This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects. Wealth and Asset Management. Public Policy. Corporate and Finance and Advisory.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. How do you go about infusing your company culture with more empathy?

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Your Corporate Purpose Will Ring Hollow If the Company’s Actions Don’t Back It Up

Harvard Business

million and profit from the sale of shares acquired as part of an incentive scheme. In Australia, where I live, we have been watching a Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. The inquiry has seen bank staff put customer interests well behind their own. million last year.

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