Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The "Right" CEO: A Corporate Life Cycle Perspective The notion that there is a collection of characteristics that makes a person a great CEO for a company, no matter what its standing, is deeply held and fed into by both academics and practitioner. The Mythology of the Great CEO Are there a set of qualities that make for a great CEO?

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 12, 2021

to ‘Business succession failure plans’, one look through the Checkpoint Learning catalog shows the topic of succession planning is hot on accountant’s minds. Now, if you are planning to leave your business within 3 to 5 years and you haven’t been smart with the money you have made, you’ve got a problem and your window is short.

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Internal Audit 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is the “how you get things done” part that moves you from being smart to being in high demand. But what about internal audit’s own culture? Who is auditing that? Who is ensuring that internal audit is modeling the right values and operating as a beacon for the company? Yet, assessing the culture of your own department is no easy task.

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Internal Audit 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It is the “how you get things done” part that moves you from being smart to being in high demand. But what about internal audit’s own culture? Who is auditing that? Who is ensuring that internal audit is modeling the right values and operating as a beacon for the company? Yet, assessing the culture of your own department is no easy task.

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Start-ups Banking 52

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Facebook: Filling in the Background It is worth noting that in good times, when earnings are rising and stock prices are upward bound, investors do not seem to have much interest in corporate governance, and it is only when the numbers start to move against them, that they rediscover the importance of the topic.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses. On August 31, Disney pulled its television channels from Spectrum (owned by Charter, the second largest cable company in the US, after Comcast) after a dispute about payments for carrying these channels.

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