Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

JP Morgan has used its internal compensation recovery policies to "clawback" two years of "total annual compensation" for London traders involved in what is now a $5.8 Dimon himself, who oversaw the CIO, could well have his 2012 compensation cut as a result of the trading problems. Drew earned $15.5

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Compensation Risk Management Accounts Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

In 2012, the National Bureau of Economic Research studied the impact that great bosses have on team productivity. They get more time from senior management. For example, many companies have compensation systems that disproportionately reward individual performance, even for team-based achievements. Manage team member egos.

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Manager Compensation Software Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

When a corporate scandal breaks – like the recent one at Wells Fargo or earlier ones at Lehman, Enron, or Qwest – the question is always raised: what was the board of directors doing while the managers in these companies were involved in such unprofessional behavior? companies during the period 1998-2012. companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Sometimes, the best management is little or no management at all. 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. Sometimes, effective order and engaging experiences can be achieved with the most simple rules. Not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Turnover among top talent is expected to increase in 2012; globalization is requiring stronger regional HR capabilities; and demographic shifts across the world are dramatically affecting availability of qualified people. Do you simply manage talent, or do you provide talent solutions that reduce friction and enhance the flow of the business?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

A story about executive compensation in the New York Times last summer reported on two brothers who allegedly earned close to $1 million a year running a nonprofit center for the developmentally disabled and used organizational funds for personal expenses. Cut to present. Cut to present. Why even hold the hearing?

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Nonprofit Compensation Education Administration 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

. — public companies, mutual funds, investment advisers, transfer agencies, and broker dealers — are required by the Dodd-Frank Act (passed by Congress in 2010) to conduct shareholder advisory votes at least once every three years on compensation for board members and the highest-paid executives. So, expect more laws.

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Compensation Government Engineering Media 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Perhaps the reason CEOs don’t care for activists is that activist investors often fire CEOs, change their compensation, and harm their reputations. Keusch looked at the impact of activist hedge funds from 1994 to 2012, to see what impact they had on management.

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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.

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Balance Sheet Banking Insurance Compensation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Many financial economists believe that high-powered executive compensation helps ensure that executives work their hardest and make the tough decisions necessary to maximize firm values. We measure the golfing habits of a subset of CEOs of S&P 1500 firms from 2008 to 2012. How can we tell if the CEO is doing their best?

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Compensation Assets Marketing Implementation 14

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%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

How can companies better manage the process of converting the potential of data science to real business outcomes? In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” How can companies go beyond merely generating new insights to changing behaviors — not only of their employees, but customers too?

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Insurance Change Management Compensation Sales Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. generalist, specialist, key account manager) is best suited for different customers or sales activities.

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Sales Sales Compensation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012. Workers in engineering, IT, business development, sales, finance, marketing, and legal services are most likely to receive compensation for moving. But if employers are willing to make (even pay for) distant hires, who are they hiring?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. Shareholders were complaining about CEOs demanding ever-higher compensation – and the Democrats responded to help capital reign in CEO talent.

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Compensation Administration Government Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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Staffing Compensation Assets Employee Engagement 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. It's not enough to change one company. It's crucial to advance the entire ecosystem.

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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. After all, activists don’t usually have the necessary votes to compel management to respond.

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Advertising Marketing Accounts Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

And yet most performance management systems still rely on a set of recognition and reward programs aimed primarily at motivating and guiding employees toward reaching their individual goals. The company had been using “employee of the month” awards since May 2012 for a subset of teams.

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Compensation Implementation Performance Management Manager 15

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. public corporations must file with the U.S. million (57% from stock-based pay).

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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. Suppose a customer manager from a major computer solutions company in the U.S. What, precisely, is required of salespeople is the key issue in the case of Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Software User Experience Recruitment Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Video interview. What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Interactive infographic.

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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!” This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.”

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Sales Sales Hospitality Accounts Payable 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple’s stated intention was to carry out this $130 billion distribution of corporate cash to Apple shareholders between August 2012 and December 2015. Since August 2012, Apple has been on a buyback binge, expending a total of $53 billion on stock repurchases through the third quarter of 2014, the last figures it has disclosed.

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Banking Marketing Assets Compensation 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Back in 2006, for instance, in an article in our magazine entitled “ Before You Split that CEO/Chair …,” Robert Pozen, chairman (but not CEO) of a Boston-based investment management firm, cited three studies from three different countries (the U.S., That was nearly 60% more than the median combined compensation ($10.6

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Compensation Insurance Diversity Government 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

In a 2012 Pew Research Center survey of moms, nearly half thought such a scenario would be ideal, while significantly lower percentages said they would prefer to stay at home or work full time. Their compensation was the ability to attend a weekday preschool function or spend an afternoon chaperoning a field trip.

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Compensation Media Manager 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). 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

Both Stumpf and Tolstedt have been forced to forfeit millions in stock options and other compensation. But suddenly the biggest companies were no longer safe from acquisition against the will of management and directors. Golden parachutes like these are hardly novel in American business. It wasn’t always like this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. million in 2012 — because of his "Whale-related" failures, and that JPM had posted a record 2012 net income of $21.3

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Risk Management Banking Compensation Government 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

To do so, enterprises need to have a strong culture, excellent managers, and continued plans for growth. This isn't just added compensation. Focus on culture and growth. Many nonprofits are able to attract talent, but struggle to develop and retain it. We continually strive for that kind of environment at Year Up.

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Nonprofit Recruitment Scaling Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

million for 2012, a 74 percent increase. Similarly, commentators have been divided about whether the raise was deserved or not, citing both economic performance (2013 was about the same as 2012) and Dimon’s handling of diverse legal and regulatory issues for support.

Accounts 8

Accounts Banking Compensation Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. What went wrong?

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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 management' million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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Balance Sheet Engineering ROI Accounts 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. 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. Why these programs work.

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