09/24/2009 12:00 PM Wong Auditorium
Lawrence K. Fish, Former Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group; Member, MIT Corporation; ; Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

Description: In a lively discussion with Simon Johnson, Lawrence Fish deconstructs the near collapse of the banking system and points out the multiple factors that have contributed to the financial crisis.

Topics in the discussion include the banks that did not fail, how Canadian and other countries' banking systems also did not fail, the political landscape of banking regulation, ethics, bonuses in the banking industry and the ethics oath signed by 50% of the students at the Harvard Business School.

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Host(s): Sloan School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management