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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

The best way to continue building the culture of caring is to offer performance incentives and gestures of gratitude for employees who demonstrate the culture in every aspect of their job from the way they treat the business to co-workers and customers. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). Compensation Ethics Finance'

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. Employee incentives. I disagree with this priority.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?