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Lehman's Three Big Mistakes
9/16/2009
by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
The collapse of Lehman Brothers one year ago this week has us asking ourselves what principles of financial intelligence we...
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Transparency: The Buzz Word in Finance
9/8/2009
by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
Everyone is proclaiming the importance of transparency. It's mentioned in the Wall Street Journal almost daily and we hear it...
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Expensing Stock Options: The Controversy
8/28/2009
by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
The highly controversial practice of expensing stock options comes up frequently when we are training managers. Understanding options and how...
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How Health Savings Accounts Work
8/12/2009
by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
We recently blogged about health insurance, which garnered some thoughtful comments on both sides of the debate. Solving our healthcare...
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Is CIT's Bailout a Sign of Recovery?
8/3/2009
by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
CIT — a company that specializes in providing lending, advisory and leasing services to small and middle market businesses —...
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Meet the Experts
Karen Berman and Joe Knight began blogging for HarvardBusiness.org in May 2009. They use their blog, Financial Intelligence (named for their best-selling book of the same name), to teach principles of finance and give meaningful insights to contemporary issues at the intersection of business and finance.
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