Category: Ethics
Part 2: I Need a New Knee (and What Happened)
By Kari Firestone Just to recap my posting last summer, after quickly self-diagnosing my swollen and bothersome knee as another in a series of tears, I learned from a real doctor that I needed an entirely new knee. His advice was to postpone the inevitable for a couple of years by giving up running and…
[VIEW FULL POST]HBR – Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong
Kari was featured as an Expert in one of Harvard Business Reviews’ case studies on office romance. Read the article as well as her commentary by following the link below. Read the full article in The Harvard Business Review here.
[VIEW FULL POST]NYTimes: How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down
By Sam Polk JULY 7, 2016 I applaud Sam Polk for the best and most honest piece I have read in my 35 years in the investment business about gender bias on Wall Street. Read the full piece in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]NYT: In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ This article shows lays out the new Consumer economy where we have services on demand, price by the minute, and tiered layers of all products. Read the full article in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]What to Do When You Almost Have Inside Information
I have spent my career in the investment business and have participated in thousands of meetings or calls with managements of public companies. A few times, I have received inside information, and I guarantee that you know when you’ve got it. When I worked at a large mutual fund company, we had ample instruction on…
[VIEW FULL POST]The Risk of Following Caitlyn Jenner
I am 100% supportive of Caitlyn Jenner’s journey of self-actualization, as well as anyone’s effort to “follow their passion” or “trust their instincts.” However, from the moment of Caitlyn’s unveiling, I have wondered whether any of the media, drooling in anticipation of a new quote from the former Bruce Jenner, would describe the risk of…
[VIEW FULL POST]When to Tell Your Employees to Stay Home
When I sat at my computer last week, trying to write out a policy explaining under what extreme circumstances we might need to close our office and how we would define our work schedule on days when people might not be able to get to the office, I thought back to a situation several years…
[VIEW FULL POST]Why You Should Try to Save Your Security Guard’s Job
Two weeks ago I found out that we were about to lose both our morning and afternoon security guards, who have worked for many years at our five story, 114,000 square foot downtown Boston office building. The new owners authorized the management company to bid out all support contracts, including security, resulting in a different…
[VIEW FULL POST]THE JOY OF RUNNING IN THE DARK
This morning, I did something that I have done at least once and often four or five times a week for nearly 30 years; I went out running in the dark. This has been a particularly challenging winter with tons of snow, and, more important, lingering ice on the street, but I have my secret…
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