WHY DID I DO THAT?

by Dr. Cecil Clements (30th October 2012)

Aditi was a first year student at Harvard Business School and she wasn’t looking forward to this particular lecture. As she sat in the classroom, heard the speaker being introduced, she struggled to maintain her composure. It was one of the most difficult lectures that she ever had to listen to or be a part of. The reason was this: the speaker was a man called Preet Bharara. He was the man who had prosecuted Rajat Gupta. The whole problem for Aditi was that Rajat Gupta was her father.

REPUTATION COUNTS

by Dr. Cecil Clements (28th February 2012)

Consider this scenario. In the Belgian city of Antwerp, a man pulls his long black coat more tightly around him to keep out the cold chill of the winter wind that blasts off the cobblestoned streets like waves crashing against the rocks. As the wind gusts, he quickly grabs his black hat to steady it on his head and ducks into the doorway of a large building. Entering a long high-ceilinged room, he loosens his coat to free his long graying beard as he walked quickly past the 2 dozen or so fraying wooden tables that lined the high-windowed wall. He greets another man dressed in a white shirt and black vest and quickly takes a seat across from him.