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Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?

Harvard Business Review

Their failure to choose the right CEO and to provide appropriate oversight on core risks and opportunities has, in my view, reflected a broad failure of the corporate governance movement and its reliance on directors to effectively to oversee the corporation and its business leaders. environmental, health and safety laws]).

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Rupert Murdoch, Customer Service Rep?

Harvard Business Review

But things can get a bit trickier if your customer service rep is also your CEO — and if he or she is attempting remedy the problem in a very public way. Murdoch is a rarity among Fortune 500 CEOs. But an IBM survey of 1,709 CEOs found that, while only 16% use social media, the number is expected to grow to 57% in five years.

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

The pay for CEOs is many multiples of the companies' average pay today — e.g. 63 times at BP and 74 times at Barclays (four or five times greater than 30 years ago). CEOs may be as much as 300 times the average pay today. The multiple for U.S. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). (See

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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Although the media has spoken loosely about a company "clawing back" pay, there are, in fact, different ways to hold responsible individuals to financial account.

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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

When I was in graduate school, I once heard Bill George tell a story about how he’d highlight both patients and employees at the Medtronic annual meeting when he was CEO. Corporate accountants can connect themselves mentally to the larger work of their organizations and take pride and purpose in the customers they help.

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers?

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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