Six Reasons We Don’t Trust Wall Street
In 2013, finance is the least trusted industry globally. It hasn’t always been this way. Within the industry, it’s tempting to think that trust can be regained by reputation management. Reputation is…
Trust & Investment Banking: Interview with The Epicurean Dealmaker
The Epicurean Dealmaker is the nom de plume of an investment banker who has written a blog by that name since January 2007. TED (as I’ll refer to him henceforth)…
The Best Movie You Haven’t Heard Of: Inside Job
Here are the ratings (% who liked) from Flixster for some of the movies playing this weekend: 90% The Social Network 88% Inside Job 81% Unstoppable 78% MegaMind 78% Jackass…
Bad for the Customer, Good for the Stock Price: Wait, What?
Doing good doesn't always mean doing well; how to think about the relationship between ethics and profitability when the odds favor the bad.
The Difference Between Wrong and Illegal
Do you know the difference between a wrong action and an illegal action? If you don’t, you are not alone. But neither are you to be trusted. The Valukas Report The Valukas…
Wall Street, We Have a (Simple) Problem
Simplying Wall Street's current perspective can provide constructive solutions to society as a whole
Soul Trust
Would you pledge your immortal soul as collateral? Would you lend based on someone else's soul?
Wall Street and Broken Social Trust
I’m hardly the first to cast the financial meltdown in terms of broken trust. But usually that means something like "we can't trust they'll still give us credit." There is…
Bear Stearns, Enron, and Some Confusion About Trust
A trust-based business model should imply more than that we trust the CEO isn't a crook.
How Does Wealth Inequality Affect Trust?
An HBS working paper tries to measure trust with a Wall Street-like money game; but does such a game teach us about trust?