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7 Compensation Strategies for Cash-Strapped Startups

Harvard Business Review

By paying these expenses out of your corporate account (or even out of pre-tax earnings if you’re in the U.S.) You can adopt other noncash incentives such as generous vacation and leave policies, flex time, remote days, half-day Fridays in the summer, or sabbaticals for veteran employees. you can stretch limited dollars.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

Failure to accurately quantify the enterprise value of data (EvD) may therefore woefully undervalue the importance of cyber-security investments, as well as the face values typically applied to cyber insurance policies. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

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Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?

Harvard Business Review

Are they now much less hesitant to force changes at the top of the corporation due to performance on fundamentals, not just scandal or stock price variation? This task goes to the fundamental question of public policy and private ordering about the corporation: how shall its leadership be held accountable and to what standards?

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The Political Case Against Out-Sized Executive Pay

Harvard Business Review

Coming at a time of renewed populism during continued economic hardship, the broad arguments articulated in the report may affect upcoming elections or legislative and regulatory policy on both sides of the Atlantic. At a minimum, the report should be carefully scrutinized by U.S.

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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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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

This idea infused platforms like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), influencing corporate accounting, stakeholder engagement and, increasingly, strategy. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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Why Are Some Sectors (Ahem, Finance) So Scandal-Plagued?

Harvard Business Review

These sectoral scandals raise profound issues for business leaders: in a highly competitive global economy, in which some sectors are flooded with money, how do you assess sector-wide integrity risks and achieve a culture of corporate accountability before , not after, bad behavior occurs?