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The Salary Gap Between Stingy and Generous Companies Is Growing

Harvard Business Review

What’s behind rising income inequality: the pay difference between janitors and CEOs, or the gap between how well different employers pay each position? So rising inequality is less about every CEO getting paid more than it is about the top finance executives leaving their peers in the dust. Income inequality in the U.S.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

Driving these changes is a widespread belief that more needs to be done to hold CEOs and boards accountable. What''s more, the asset management industry — in particular the alternative-asset subset of hedge funds and private equity — has exported many of its pay practices into the corporate sector. That''s understandable.

Hedge 8
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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

As best I can tell, there are three levels of bubble danger (they correlate somewhat with Hyman Minsky's three stages of economic danger: Ponzi, speculative, and hedge finance). But what's a CEO to do about it? What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble? The Ponzi bubble.

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