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Evidence pointing to excessive risk-taking by executives at investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers continues to emerge more than a year after the two investment banks collapsed in 2008—this time from a paper released online this weekend by three Harvard Law School affiliates...
...work seeks to contribute to this ongoing examination. We do by showing that the examples of Bear Stearns and Lehman should not be used as a basis for dismissing the potential role of compensation structures in past risk-taking and the potential value of fixing such structures,” Bebchuk wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson...
...that individuals engaging in risky behavior will “feel the pain.” The next day, Barclays CEO John S. Varley wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that “incentives and compensation must be better aligned to delivery, must take account of risk, and must be paid out over time...
Still, he said that “better corporate governance, more shareholder control is an important thing. That doesn’t necessarily mean less risk-taking, but smarter risk-taking...
...British military planning for an invasion started in February 2002, despite Blair's public statements that preparations had not begun that early. The Telegraph said the government documents showed that the secretive planning for the war resulted in a rushed operation "lacking in coherence and resources" that caused "significant risk" to troops and "critical failure" after the conflict. The paper also revealed what it termed "hostility" between British and American military leaders, including reports that the top British military commander in Iraq from November 2003 to July 2004, Major General Andrew Stewart, complained about a "real difficulty dealing with...