Category Archives: Case Studies

Personnel is Policy: Changes of Agency Leadership under a Biden-Harris Administration

By | January 15, 2021
3 Comments

The outcome of recent national elections will result in a change of Administration and control of both houses of Congress by the Administration’s political party. As a result, there will be a change in national policy and in the leadership of the agencies that will oversee and enforce it. This post will review currently announced and potential changes to the leadership of Federal agencies that exercise supervisory and regulatory power regarding financial services and housing and the policy… Read More »

The Long Shadow Beyond Lockdown: Board Chairs’ Professional Epidemic Experience and Corporate Investment

By | September 30, 2020
0 Comment

The coronavirus pandemic has caused great damage to the global economy, due to the disease itself and the subsequent local and country-wide lockdowns to contain it. While recent investigations have focused on the short-term impact of COVID-19 and the lockdowns, the long-term impact, especially the ways that epidemic experience affects managerial decision making, has received… Read More »

Danske Bank Money Laundering Case Study

By | September 11, 2019
0 Comment

Courtesy of Lee Reiners and Joseph A. Smith Jr. This case study draws primarily—and in some instances quotes verbatim—from the “Report on the Non-Resident Portfolio at Danske Bank’s Estonian Branch” prepared for the Bank on September 19, 2018, by the law firm Bruun & Hjejle.[1] Additional details are derived from other sources, including Danske Bank… Read More »

Carillion Plc: A Governance Case Study from the UK

By | July 18, 2018
1 Comment

Courtesy of Joseph A. Smith Jr. At year-end 2016, Carillion Plc (Carillion or the company) was, in the words of its annual report, “one of the UK’s leading integrated support services companies, with a substantial portfolio of Public Private Partnership projects, extensive construction capabilities and a sector-leading ability to deliver sustainable solutions.” [1] The company… Read More »

Wells Fargo Unauthorized Account Openings: A Case Study for Bank Board Directors

By | April 26, 2017
4 Comments

Courtesy of Joseph A. Smith Jr. and Lee Reiners This case study draws primarily – and in some instances quotes verbatim –  from the 113 page report of the Wells Fargo board’s independent investigation of retail banking sales practices.  The case study also relies on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s report titled:… Read More »