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Guardian Pharmacy Services Model Grows Through Today’s Obstacles

Chief Executive

We’ve been competitive in the market from a compensation standpoint, making sure we’re offering the right benefits and looking to see if the position allows some flexibility,” Morris said. That’s what has led to our success: We have, almost, 40 separate businesses with a separate P&L and balance sheet.

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Transformation During Crisis | Simon Leslie

Peter Winick

Not many companies fail during COVID because the government’s propped up so many companies. 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

Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. . • The largest U.S.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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Why Leaders Lose Their Way

Harvard Business Review

While most people value fair compensation for their accomplishments, few leaders start out seeking only money, power, and prestige. Many times, this desire is so strong that leaders breach the ethical standards that previously governed their conduct, which can be bizarre and even illegal. They start to believe their own press.

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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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The Three Reforms China Must Enact: Land, Social Services, and Taxes

Harvard Business Review

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt. The central government must start to give more tax revenues to local governments.