Women are far less involved in corporate crime than men says this study. Criminality aside, men tend to take bigger risks more often and cut more corners than their female counterparts. No surprise that “London Whales” and “Masters of the Universe” attend “Predators Balls” in the testoterone-fueled, frat house culture so consistently described by any number of insider books about the world of high finance. A recent post here noted Harvard Business School’s attempt to get women to adopt in-your-face posturing that vault men to the top of the business world. This we need more of?
Tag Archives: Culture
Women Get the Business at HBS
Well, what a surprise–gender inequity at the Harvard Business School is long-entrenched and, at least for female faculty, likely to continue (check out the neat 5 slide chart in the story). In the classroom, school administrators are intent on engineering more rapid change in, and for, female students. Whether this works–the outcome seems uncertain given the tenor of this piece–the last paragraph underscores that HBS will continue to punch the tickets of “born on third base” and/or legacy admits–George W. Bush was one; so was Mitt Romney–for their first class seats on the bullet train to the economic/political power centers of the U.S.
Pinstriped Wall of Silence!
So, now a pinstriped (prosecutors) wall of silence joins the “blue” (cops), “white” (doctors) and “black” (priests) wall of silence. Time to recognize these walls as a generic feature of organizations dominated by members of a primary occupational group who “understand” why corners may be cut, may themselves do it and, therefore, reflexively defend colleagues who do get caught. Viewpoints.
Building Strong Organizations
Defining the values that energize an organization, not a bad idea. As this executive notes, when small an organization may manage this by osmosis but, as it grows, the values governing how the organization is run need to be made explicit. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/business/victoria-ransom-of-wildfire-on-instilling-a-companys-values.html?smid=pl-share
Tailhook: 20 Years and Counting
The issue of sexual harassment and indiscretion in the military has been much in the news lately. Not like this issue didn’t blow sky high two decades ago at the Tailhook Convention that was an annual magnet for Navy flyers. Auditors: Defense Department slow to develop sexual-assault policies