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The Nasty Truth about CEO Pay

Harvard Business Review

Yes, the market is rebounding; the S&P 500 was up 13% over 2010. Using the S&P500 as a proxy, and setting the January 1, 2007 stock price at $100/share, Tom's share price at the beginning of each year is as follows: 2008 — $102; 2009 - $66; 2010 — $ 80; and 2011 — $90. 04 Jan 2010. $80. 04 Jan 2010.

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Big Data's Human Component

Harvard Business Review

Any fool, or mortgage banker, can use a spreadsheet and calculate a Black-Scholes equation. From the day their firm, O'Connor & Associates , opened its doors in 1977, derivatives were treated as if they were radioactive — you weren't allowed near them without a hazmat suite and at least one PhD in mathematics.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

The SEC’s new disclosure requirement implements a section of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that seeks to expose extreme pay gaps within corporations and to permit cross-company comparisons of CEO-worker pay inequality. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S.

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