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Say on Pay in 2011, and What to Expect for 2012

Harvard Business Review

We found that investors voted "no" on Say on Pay for four primary reasons: A disconnect between pay and performance (92 percent), with performance generally defined as relative and absolute Total Shareholder Return (TSR) over one, three, and five years; or financial performance, such as revenue and earnings growth, over multi-year timeframes.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well.

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Don't Blame Your Company's Poor Performance on Its Industry

Harvard Business Review

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% It was just lousy timing if you happened to be in one of these industries, which were all in the bottom quartile of total shareholder returns (share price change plus dividends paid) in the 10 years through 2012. Perhaps by a lot.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession. Several companies came out of the recession stronger than they were when it started.

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How This Lingerie Store Boosted its Bottom Line, Despite the Downturn

Harvard Business Review

The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012. The findings revealed that a group of companies emerged with higher total shareholder return (TSR) than their peers post-recession. Several companies came out of the recession stronger than they were when it started.

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