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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. How will this economic crisis play out? Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” She makes a good point.

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The Nasty Truth about CEO Pay

Harvard Business Review

This year was no exception, though the criticism had a particular post-crisis bent: Why are CEOs making an average $9.3 Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. million, up 11% over 2009, when the economy is still largely in the tank? Stock Price.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Finally, not surprisingly, economists have been active for decades in formulating and testing theories in the financial world, some of which have found their into actual products (not all of them bad, like the complicated sub-prime mortgage securities at the heart of the financial crisis, which economists did not design).