Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

In 2012, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen wrote about their landmark work on management in these pages. Our analysis shows, for example, that variation in management accounts for nearly a quarter of the roughly 30% productivity gap between the U.S. A new paper builds on this work and takes it one step further.

Manager 15

Manager Compensation Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

But the aforementioned Emanuel Saez, together with Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, has for the past decade-plus been using income tax records to compile a rich account of what’s been going on up there in the top 1%. taxpayers claimed 11.33% of overall income in 2012, up from 2.65% in 1978. The top 0.1%

Compensation 14

Compensation Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” Similarly, a 2012 EY survey of almost 600 global business executives found that talent management functions often measure the easy things (such as employee retention) while overlooking other factors that are important for organizational success (such as whether the right people, with the right skills, are in the right jobs).

Manager 15

Manager Talent Development Accounts Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

I confess I am guilty of not changing my passwords often enough and using similar passwords for different accounts. who work for government department of Compensation to help deafs, Hearing, Poor, and Young People in the Community?". When that didn't help, I regretfully made the draconian decision to delete my account.

Advertising 14

Advertising Media Accounts Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. The largest U.S. The largest U.S.

Balance Sheet 15

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” A small proportion of worker’s compensation claims account for a large proportion of complexity, contention, delay and losses for AIG: 10% of claims account for almost 60% of costs. ” One might be surprised to find a Science Team in an insurance company.

Insurance 14

Insurance Change Management Compensation Sales Management 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Either directly in meetings or implicitly in their compensation plans, they basically tell their sales forces to “Go forth and multiply!” But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. So, for most firms, de facto strategy is the aggregate result of the deals their salespeople bring in.

Sales 14

Sales Sales Hospitality Accounts Payable 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Paul Garbett for HBR.

Advertising 14

Advertising Marketing Accounts Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

generalist, specialist, key account manager) is best suited for different customers or sales activities. This requires using tools such as sales compensation, recognition programs, and goal setting to motivate salespeople to perform the right sales activities. As we suggested in a 2012 HBR piece , there are no silver bullets.

Sales 14

Sales Sales Compensation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

In the wake of its significant trading losses (now reportedly rising from $2 to $3 billion or more), JP Morgan can win back some of its lost reputation by transparently holding those responsible to account. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management Banking Compensation Accounts 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, already under fire for a fraudulent bank account scheme , has faced tough questions about his salary and the multimillion-dollar retirement package of Carrie Tolstedt, a key executive tied to the scandal. Both Stumpf and Tolstedt have been forced to forfeit millions in stock options and other compensation.

Compensation 12

Compensation Insurance Benefits Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Accountability. Boards should make CEOs accountable for technology failures and data breaches. And Panda Labs recently published data indicating that at a basic level, more than 27% of computers are infected with malware.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet ROI Engineering Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

requests for information, up 6 percent from the first half of 2012. But in a shrinking compensation pool, that's not much comfort. Globally, Google received 21,389 requests, up 2 percent from the first half of the year.” Oh, and the rankings: HBS (which is, of course, the parent organization of HBR) ousts Stanford for the top spot.

Government 8

Government ROI Compensation Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

and Switzerland) which each found no statistically significant difference in terms of stock price or accounting income between companies that split the roles and those that combined them. The 2012 study looked at 180 North American corporations with a market capitalization of $20 billion or more. Boards Compensation Leadership'

Compensation 8

Compensation Insurance Diversity Government 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Visitors to the 2012 Olympic Games enjoyed the shared space rework of London's cultural mecca, Exhibition Road, a three-year, multi-million dollar project. These agreements are often implicit, ones that everyone understands and is accountable for, yet that are left open to individual interpretation and variation.

Manager 10

Manager Compensation Accounts Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Remember that classic moment in the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney uttered the phrase “ binders full of women ”? This workforce deserves training, support and compensation for being at-the-ready and willing to do an important job that many might find tedious or too demanding.

Media 15

Media Advertising Accounts Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Getting Started. ” Hiring for Growth.

Software 14

Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Banking Compensation Government 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Specifically, what real world experiment or bold ideas are you advancing to accelerate the shift toward a more principled, patient, and socially-accountable capitalism? Hacking Executive Compensation with Dynamic Incentive Accounts. The diversity of ideas was as striking as the diversity of the contributors. Hack by Alex Edmans.

Inclusion 10

Inclusion Nonprofit Diversity Compensation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And prior to the latest economic challenges, its middle class was estimated to account for as much as 60% of the total population. This means that companies won’t be able to compensate for lacking growth in Russia just by tapping another market. It has the tenth-largest population in the world , of which 74% is urban.

B2B 12

B2B Government Marketing Scaling 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. Make up for it: The first tactic was to compensate employees for the long work by rewarding them handsomely with financial and other benefits. Find someone to hold you accountable. Unfortunately, this story of impending burnout is not unusual.

Metrics 15

Metrics Strategic Planning Benefits Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.” Recruitment intensity is a shorthand term to describe everything employers can do to affect the likelihood of filling a job vacancy, such as changes in advertising expenditures, screening methods, hiring standards, and compensation. domestic labor force each year between 2009 and 2012.

Education 14

Education Recruitment Marketing Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Good corporate governance is about many things — boards that act independently, robust shareholder rights, accurate accounting, reasonable and fair executive compensation, and so on. No single parameter defines good governance. It takes a village. Many shareholders agree. And the woman being added to the company''s board?

Diversity 8

Diversity Government Compensation Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Driving these changes is a widespread belief that more needs to be done to hold CEOs and boards accountable. This shift to financial-markets-based compensation had some of the promised impact — CEOs did become less risk-averse (bureaucrat-like) in their decision-making.

Compensation 8

Compensation Assets Government Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” A small proportion of worker’s compensation claims account for a large proportion of complexity, contention, delay and losses for AIG: 10% of claims account for almost 60% of costs.

Insurance 8

Insurance Compensation Sales Management Change Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. If not, then some or all of that executive’s cash incentive will be withheld by the board’s Compensation Committee.

Compliance 8

Compliance Government Accounts Organizational Change 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. While the identity of the interviewed firms is confidential, it is easy to find similar examples from publicly available accounts in other firms.

Revenue 8

Revenue Compensation Accounts Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Class is expressed through cultural differences , not just how much money is in your bank account. Being an adept advocator for yourself can affect your performance evaluations , your promotions, and your compensation. For example, what are elite sports? Polo, tennis, windsurfing, squash. What are working-class sports?

Diversity 15

Diversity Inclusion Banking Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

.” He further stresses that a “professional does not merely work; he/she has to be educated and trained, (socialized) as member of an occupational domain, supervised by his/her peers and held accountable.” It was then that a belief in external controls began influencing the industry.

Education 8

Education Administration Accounts Compensation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Revenues from private insurance have not fully offset the reductions in Medicare payments stemming from the Affordable Care Act and federal budget sequestration initiated in 2012. Despite declining inpatient demand and modest outpatient growth, hospitals have added 540,000 workers in the past decade. cardiology, orthopedics, oncology).

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Insurance Cash Flow Operations 8

Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

Payroll Management : Automated payroll processing to ensure accurate and timely compensation. Compensation and Benefits: Compensation Planning : Helps design and manage salary structures, bonuses, and other forms of compensation. Transaction fees : Certain transactions, such as ACH payments or paper checks, may have fees.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64

UVA Darden

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Popular press headlines, with their all-too-frequent accounts of corporate misconduct, remind us that it is apparently too easy to succumb to the pressures of organizational life, sacrificing ethics for expediency or personal gain. New York: HarperCollins, 2012). Defining Moments. 8 Clayton M.

Government 135

Government Business Administration Accounts Compliance 135

UVA Darden

AUGUST 4, 2022

The firm finally filed for bankruptcy in 2012, and Kodak’s moment was over. Harris has written extensively on the topics of executive compensation and other governance-related topics. The result?

Business Administration 102

Business Administration Government Administration Operations 102

UVA Darden

AUGUST 4, 2022

The firm finally filed for bankruptcy in 2012, and Kodak’s moment was over. Harris has written extensively on the topics of executive compensation and other governance-related topics. The result?

Business Administration 98

Business Administration Government Administration Operations 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit. million in 2010, when (dominated by the gains from exercising stock options) stock-based compensation accounted for 70% of total compensation. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6

Compensation 12

Compensation Cash Flow Benefits Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

For example, residents and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak incident in India still live with the environmental damage created by Union Carbide, and protest yearly to publicize their continuing efforts to obtain financial compensation for damages as well as justice for the remaining perpetrators.

Government 11

Government Scaling Benefits Compensation 11