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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

Pay is a hot topic, cropping up in all sorts of discussions — from the fast-food industry to state minimum wage laws and speculation about the why The New York Times recently fired its first woman executive editor. Top industries in the top 25. The results are based on a year’s worth of verified feedback from U.S.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

Across industries, the sense of economic uncertainty is also remarkably consistent. Not surprisingly, with the price of oil dropping, directors of companies the energy & utilities industries are particularly discouraged. Different Industries, Different Regions, Different Motivations.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk. They’re also sharing risk. But not for long.

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The Growing Conflict-of-Interest Problem in the U.S. Congress

Harvard Business Review

For example, one industry that has a direct impact on Americans — and gives a lot of money to elected officials — is big pharma. Ziobrowski, professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta, said, in 2012 , “You can’t get into their heads to know what is motivating them. We think the answer is a clear yes.