Financial service sector

Is the diversity created by mass migration a good thing for economic growth? To find out, a pair of researchers mobilized a large-scale dataset on international...

Researchers studied backlash to change at five elite law firms — and how leadership eventually won the skeptics over.

A look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education.

John S. Reed, chairman and CEO of Citicorp, has never been reluctant to make waves. During his 25-year career with the most powerful bank in the United States, Reed has engineered radical change in a major operating group, built a lucrative new business from scratch, and played a high-visibility role in the pivotal issue of […]

The United States and United Kingdom may be, as Churchill said, two countries separated by the same language. Equally, however, the United Kingdom may be the best window Americans have onto the deliberately opaque landscape of the European Community. Sitting here in London, spiritually closer to Boston than to Brussels, it is easy for me […]

Economic hardship is making some companies reconsider their contributions.

Working product by product and country by country to develop the region’s digital economy

America’s banking crisis presents choices both perilous and promising. Perilous, because the failure to act intelligently will lead to the most serious economic collapse since the Great Depression. As much as 25% of the U.S. banking system—representing assets of more than $750 billion—has begun to post such massive loan losses that it must focus on […]

Finance is more vulnerable than ever to disruption by big tech. Here's how leaders can respond.

Through an innovative insurance policy, Honeywell has taken a first step toward making integrated risk management a reality.

Fewer drivers could mean less revenue.

It could reduce friction and costs.

Every company makes choices about the channels it will use to go to market. For instance, traditionally, customer demographics guided the decision to...

Fifteen minutes south of Chicago’s Loop, the inner-city neighborhood of South Shore has an old-fashioned bank with a radical twist. For those of us at South Shore Bank, banking means knowing the borrower, the neighborhood, property values, and the economic environment. It means tough credit standards, cautious qualification of borrowers, and close monitoring of the […]

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A new study found that in the three years after regulations were enacted, residential permit applications fell by an average of 10% in 15 U.S. cities.

Japan today sits on the largest cache of wealth ever assembled. It has the power to move markets anywhere in the world. Consider that. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has now surpassed New York to become the world’s largest on the basis of market capitalization. Osaka has bumped London to fourth place. Of the world’s ten […]

For ten years, Jeff Patterson's firm, Flynn Fuller Consulting, has worked on projects for financial services giant GloBank. Now Jeff's contact, Bill Holland,...

The most popular offshore sites for service functions are overheating. Now is the time for companies to explore a world of opportunity beyond those hot spots and to base investment decisions not just on costs but also on talent, markets, strategic aims, and appetite for risk.

Should companies control all the ways people experience art?