Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. This would be more than enough to compensate for the demographic shift. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6%

Government 15

Government Compensation Engineering Hospitality 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

To foster it, they often give sales its own learning and development team, recruiting specialists, compensation plan, and management and IT systems — but now they’re finding that those differences can hinder success as much as they support it. Collaboration Compensation Managing people Sales'

Sales 14

Sales Sales Compensation Compliance 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 16

Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. There was even more variation in the kinds of benefits provided by golden parachutes.

Compensation 12

Compensation Insurance Benefits Assets 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

For those fortunate enough to have full time employment, job security is down, and pension and health benefits are shrinking. A key marker occurred in 1992 when President Bill Clinton signed into law a tax change that allowed only the first $1 million in CEO compensation to be deducted for corporate income tax purposes. Yes indeed.

Compensation 13

Compensation Administration Government Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Without benefit of a broader perspective, it is questionable whether these independently developed local strategies and processes will combine to align aggregate sales effort with overall strategic priorities. As we suggested in a 2012 HBR piece , there are no silver bullets. Creating excellence in all of these areas is no easy task.

Sales 14

Sales Sales Compensation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In his winning hack, Heerad Sabeti makes a powerful case for the concerted cultivation of a "fourth sector" of the economy (alongside the public, private and social sector) to give "for benefit" firms equal billing as vehicles of value creation alongside for-profit firms. We're all in this together. Nike's Gameplan for Growth.

Diversity 16

Diversity Human Resources Advertising Benefits 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. The actual money-in-the-bank total ARG compensation of its CEO John C.

Compensation 10

Compensation Banking Government Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Year Up pays competitive salaries that are augmented by great benefits. This isn't just added compensation. Year Up's benefits average about 30% of an average full-time employee's salary, which is not inexpensive, but these investments have fueled our growth from serving 22 students in one city in 2001 to 1,500 nationally in 2012.

Nonprofit 14

Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

It's no trivial matter; in fact, it could have big implications regarding the way salespeople are compensated across industries. Likewise, if a salesperson explains a product's benefits, provides samples, offers contrasts with competing products, and handles objections, it shouldn't matter how the end customer actually fulfills an order.

Sales 16

Sales Sales Banking Insurance 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Although such sentiments may not apply to most CEOs, even the anonymous CEO still benefits from the impulse: Most CEOs worldwide earn between 50 and 100 times more than the average worker. For example, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk enjoy cult-like status and are widely regarded as modern tycoons of innovation. million.

Staffing 14

Staffing Compensation Assets Employee Engagement 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc., increased by over $300,000. And consider the example of Jeffery W.

Government 13

Government Travel Benefits Compensation 13

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. Becoming more productive ultimately requires an investment now for the promise of future benefits.

Metrics 15

Metrics Strategic Planning Benefits Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Maybe that’s why the 2012 research from Matthew Semadeni and Ryan Krause at the University of Indiana’s Kelley School was so widely reported as suggesting that the roles should not be split unless the company is doing badly. The 2012 study looked at 180 North American corporations with a market capitalization of $20 billion or more.

Compensation 8

Compensation Insurance Diversity Government 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Twenty-five years ago, a lot of companies did experiment with systems that based a portion of employees’ take-home pay — or even their entire compensation — on team performance. The company had been using “employee of the month” awards since May 2012 for a subset of teams.

Compensation 15

Compensation Implementation Performance Management Manager 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A "hold-back" cancels financial benefits which have been awarded but have not yet vested. A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). A "claw-back" seeks cash or equity already transferred to an individual.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management Banking Compensation Accounts 9

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. Perhaps management agrees to initiatives that destroy financial value because they themselves somehow benefit.

Advertising 14

Advertising Marketing Accounts Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. ” Hiring for Growth. The biggest challenge was growing fast.

Software 14

Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Some projects seem never to have been designed as anything other than pilots: they remain limited and local, delivering only marginal benefits. NGOs and philanthropic organizations often give away their digital products and services, as if being free could compensate for a lack of value. Currently 1.2

Revenue 15

Revenue Government Operations Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Given the current levels of equity compensation, this would cost the average CEO $4.5 For example, JC Penney’s CEO, Ron Johnson, suffered a 97% pay cut in 2012 due to poor performance. For example, earnings restatements lead to a -9% return. million – but it would cost zero if he had been given a flat salary.

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Reorganization Compensation Government 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

However, much of our success is due to our highly unusual compensation strategy that motivates everybody in the business to help the company grow. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission. Overall, we pay more than market compensation through our commission model, by 20-50 percent.

Compensation 8

Compensation Revenue Sales Sales 8

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. The compensation committee should push for clearer links between pay and performance for IT-related activity (which ultimately is nearly everything most firms do). IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet Engineering ROI Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012. I am, to say the least, deeply skeptical.

Assets 16

Assets Government Marketing Compensation 16

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

MAY 22, 2012

Hacking Executive Compensation with Dynamic Incentive Accounts. Develop and Support the DNA of a New Capitalism: The For-Benefit Enterprise. You can also meet many of the winners from all three rounds of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation at the MIX Mashup on June 19, 2012, in San Francisco. Story by Gib Bulloch.

Inclusion 11

Inclusion Diversity Nonprofit Compensation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

But rising leaders often lack the time in the workforce to have reaped the benefits of such experiences. To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions.

Revenue 15

Revenue Human Resources Compensation Retention 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. Kids also need to see mom and dad working (whether that work is compensated or volunteer), because as any parent of teenagers knows, actions speak louder than words. Many high-wealth parents put off having conversations about money.

Compensation 14

Compensation Education Benefits Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. Shih go beyond a simple yes or no answer in a 2012 article. From there, check out this set of quick facts on those topics. Pisano and Willy C.

Education 10

Education Compensation Administration Benefits 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. The most important benefit of segmenting, however, was that it allowed the company systematically to identify those investors that would be most important for providing valuable feedback.

Balance Sheet 11

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

by 80% between 2005 and 2012. The obvious benefits for workers include flexibility, autonomy, and the comfort of working in your own space,” says Ned Hallowell, author of the forthcoming Driven to Distraction at Work. If you have to work extra hours on a project, give yourself some extra free time later on to compensate.

Banking 15

Banking Compensation Marketing Media 15

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.

Software 64

Software Compliance Onboarding Administration 64

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Being an adept advocator for yourself can affect your performance evaluations , your promotions, and your compensation. Integrating class into corporate diversity programming has two distinct benefits. .’” Successful self-promotion is an important ingredient to career success in professional workplaces.

Diversity 15

Diversity Inclusion Banking Education 15

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. There are many reasons companies benefit from hiring an outsider, such as to effect change. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

Revenue 8

Revenue Compensation Accounts Marketing 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. cardiology, orthopedics, oncology). To create value by employing physicians, health systems must actually manage their physicians’ practices.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Insurance Cash Flow Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It is estimated that 60% of the benefit of the TCJA went to stockholders rather than to employees or new capital investment. A Pew study found that state and local governments were spending 31% of their revenues on health care by 2012. employees by an average of $1,443 per year. Consumer demand.

Government 8

Government Insurance Administration Revenue 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

The constant saturation of negative school headlines took its toll: The public’s approval rating of public schools fell from 58% in 1973 to 29% in 2012. In our book on the 2012 Chicago teacher strike , my colleague and I note, “Teacher unions have largely made compromises with the prevailing wisdom.

Education 8

Education Administration Accounts Compensation 8

Alison Green

AUGUST 25, 2024

My office has a generous time-off benefit, with about five weeks of vacation and 2.5 I’ve always believed that a person’s PTO is a compensation benefit and wouldn’t make anyone feel guilty for taking the time they are owed. ruling has changed at all since 2012 ? Still no photos on resumes?

Staffing 105

Staffing Travel Banking Compensation 105