{"id":3337,"date":"2009-10-01T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T16:28:32","slug":"bofa-ceo-lewis-resigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/01\/bofa-ceo-lewis-resigning\/","title":{"rendered":"BofA CEO Lewis resigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3662\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/lewis-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"lewis\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/lewis-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/lewis.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After months of legal scrutiny of Bank of America&#8217;s takeover of Merrill Lynch, BofA CEO Ken Lewis says he&#8217;ll <a title=\"step down\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125434715693053835.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\" target=\"_blank\">step down <\/a>at year&#8217;s end.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"James Post\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/PostJames.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Post<\/a>, an authority on corporate governance and business ethics, says the momentous changes that Lewis orchestrated left BofA vulnerable and Lewis himself personally accountable.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What brought Lewis to this decision is the complex interplay of leadership, governance, and accountability.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact James Post, 617-353-4162, <a href=\"mailto:jepost@bu.edu\">jepost@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of legal scrutiny of Bank of America&#8217;s takeover of Merrill Lynch, BofA CEO Ken Lewis says he&#8217;ll step down at year&#8217;s end.\u00a0 School of Management Professor James Post, an authority on corporate governance and business ethics, says the momentous changes that Lewis orchestrated left BofA vulnerable and Lewis himself personally accountable. &#8220;What brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[752,79,1971,831,753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}