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CEOs Earn Less at More-Prestigious Firms

Harvard Business Review

We identified prestigious firms as those that ranked in the top 100 of Fortune’s annual America’s Most Admired Companies (MAC) list from 1992 and 2010. The ranking is based on surveys of senior executives, outside directors, and financial analysts, who select the 10 firms they most admire. We also obtained data on U.S.

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The Lure of China's Public Sector

Harvard Business Review

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. Especially telling: 57% of the Chinese women university graduates surveyed for our book Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets rated the public sector as an attractive job option. The rewards were there, but they came at a high price.

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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Unless You're a Working Mom)

Harvard Business Review

In a 2010 survey, for example, only 25% of French employers said they were "strongly interested in hiring mothers," and 41% feared there would be "less flexibility in the schedules of mothers who worked" (they didn''t have this fear when it came to men). What''s a Fair Price for Medical Services? It’s called price-fixing.”

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Thank You for Doing Your Job

Harvard Business Review

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. Had something catastrophic happened? In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%.

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Moneyball and the Talent Mismatch Facing Business

Harvard Business Review

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. Workers may be available, in other words, and may have skills, but they're not the ones employers need today or accessible at a price managers' budgets allow them to pay.

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How a Start-Up Can Succeed in a Mature Category

Harvard Business Review

I had spent my career building emerging brands in the natural and organic consumer space, first leading sales and marketing for Kashi cereal, then founding SPINS, a market research firm for the natural products industry. The packaging was a classic 12-ounce aluminum can and the price point, while premium at about $1.00

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When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise — Including for Men

Harvard Business Review

In places like Gadsden, Alabama, and Punta Gorda, Florida, less than half of working age women (46% and 42%, respectively) were in the paid workforce in 2010; cities like Madison, Wisconsin, had 73% and Fargo, North Dakota, had more than 75% (the highest in the nation) of women in the workforce. hour more than Columbus from 1980 to 2010.