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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 The first CEO, let's call him Thrill-a-Minute Tom, has had a wild ride. Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue.

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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). Strategy'