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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

I’ve had 911, I’ve had 28, 2012, 2014 where I, I tried to pivot too much and fell over. But it took guts and courage to acquire something that CNN, a company, you know, 100,000 times your size, was ultimately pulling the plug on and throwing in the trash and saying, get this off my balance sheet. It’s one step.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Performance-Based Pay for Executives Still Works

Harvard Business Review

The stock price captures not just current profits, but expected future profits, growth opportunities, balance sheet strength, corporate culture, customer satisfaction, relations with stakeholders, and so on, and weights them by their relative importance for firm value. For example, earnings restatements lead to a -9% return.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Accountability.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. It also called for streamlining headquarters and cutting executive management’s compensation. Nikon watched its profits sink and its stock price at one point fell below liquidation value.

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Running a Gallery: An HBR Small Business Interview

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, we've had half a dozen of those events, and they're an economic feed for what isn't happening organically through the door. You have a different compensation model than a lot of other galleries; how does that work, and why did you decide to shake things up? Some days are more in the trenches, looking at balance sheets.