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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief

Harvard Business Review

While some people recognize Kozlowski for his extraordinary success as a manager, many more remember him as the highly paid executive with an extravagant lifestyle, including his infamous $6,000 shower curtain, who was convicted of taking more than $100 million from Tyco. Much to my surprise, he agreed to tell me.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes.

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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

Here we bring to you precisely that information, with additional info about types of retirement benefits and the goals an employer would like to accomplish by offering retirement benefits. Golden parachutes: This is an agreement between the companies and the key professionals.