As a financial consultant, Satyajit Das told his clients: Let us know what you want to do and why you want to do it, and we can fit models and numbers around it. The models are not sacred. And investors had better pay attention to...

Satyajit Das witnessed first-hand the transformation of the financial industry's reward system, how bonuses replaced the "golden handshake" of private partnerships. Das also saw how in the financial business deviating from the norm is...