Warren Buffet, who rushed into the bond insurance business during the financial crisis has since backed away.
Worse, the right's new hero is CNBC's Rick Santelli, a man who on September 2, 2008, said the economy was healthy and blamed the business media for the financial crisis.
So for top business schools the financial crisis may be a catalyst, affecting not just how their clients operate but how the schools themselves operate.
In fact, Cisco seems destined for a rebound in its core business once the current financial crisis subsides, when those big buyers find they cannot put off technology upgrades any longer.
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He steered that business through the most challenging financial crisis of our careers and helped it emerge even stronger.
Now it is focused on expanding retail brokerage and rebuilding an institutional business badly shaken by the financial crisis.
The Siegels decided to sell because Mr. Siegel needed to reinvest in his business during the real estate and financial crisis.
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Surveys by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the Kauffman Foundation during the financial crisis indicated that lack of customer demand and not credit availability was business owners' paramount concern.
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The uncomfortable fact is that many of the business leaders who played a part in the current financial crisis are MBAs.
He helped in the family restaurant business until 1998, when it was hit by the Asia financial crisis (they owned the brands Hanamasa and Pronto).
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Although they cut staff and sold off some business lines after the start of the financial crisis, they still need to cut costs by another 20 percent.
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So does the idea, prominent throughout the financial crisis and its aftermath, that business failure should be punished because the failure obviously was caused by knowingly risky behavior.
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Gupta's business is taking some hits from the financial crisis.
Since the financial crisis, several business schools have introduced ethics courses addressing the moral shortcomings of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff or added lessons on the social implications of the mortgage meltdown.
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In the years after the 2008 global financial crisis, the U.S government criticized every facet of the mortgage business, from how financial institutions decided who got a loan to how borrowers in default were treated.
His business as a fishmonger has also dropped because of the financial crisis as people eat less fresh fish to save money.
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With a wife and two young daughters, he deliberated finding another media job, but the financial crisis had cratered the publishing business.
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However, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in business is still tenuous, with nearly 70% of respondents saying that business and financial companies will revert to old habits when the financial crisis is over.
It hadn't been that long since his family had experienced rough financial times after losing their residential development business in the housing crisis.
Yet, when the financial crisis started to take hold and the business was looking to make cuts, it was obvious who would be the first to the door.
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Earlier, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged global political and business leaders to work together to fix the financial system as the economic crisis returned to the top of the agenda in Davos.
"Since the financial crisis, programs have focused not on business skills, but on modern thinking, ethics and leadership, which can be a bit squishy, " says Rob Hums, senior analyst of learning and development at State Farm Insurance Co.
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Lost in the debates over Too Big To Fail banks is a major money center bank that has come through three business cycles unscathed and had enough financial strength in the middle of the 2008 crisis to swoop in under Citi and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and buy failing Wachovia Wells Fargo.
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Chilton said after the financial crisis that there needs to be a change in business culture.
More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.
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He thinks the financial crisis has convinced people that investing is not just for business-school graduates.
The firm aggressively recruited star lawyers and their big books of business but was hampered by sagging demand for legal services in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Asia's leading airlines are slashing business-class fares through special promotions on a scale not seen since the global financial crisis, as banks continue to cut travel budgets and staff.
What happens to private equity may be a leading indicator of how the crisis in the financial system will affect the rest of the business world, both because private-equity deals are so dependent on large amounts of debt, and because many of the shrewdest judges of corporate value work for private-equity funds.
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