Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Whether paid work or a volunteer role within a church, placing people in positions where they can maximize their strengths, know that they are truly valued and that they play a significant role in fulfilling the vision will go a long way towards preventing burn out and loosing incentive. Great interview Mike!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To get the green light, it helps to understand how finance people think. Finance & Accounting Tool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is taught in any Finance 101 class, and is presumably what McKinsey advises its clients. We wanted to see whether CEO pay packets encouraged short-termism — whether CEOs cut investment to pump up their company’s short-term stock price and then cash out their shares. So does short-termism exist?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Incentives-rewards-bonus plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. Maintains active community relations program.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It was an event packed with prominent people who work (or worked) in finance, but seem to come from a different, more genteel world than the bulk of modern Wall Street: Bogle, Swensen, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, former TIAA-CREF CEO John Biggs. But, to follow Swensen's reasoning, the incentives are all wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. Such performance-insensitive pay packages seem to defy both common sense and established economic theory on optimal incentives. By endorsing performance-insensitive compensation packages, broadly diversified investors are indeed incentivizing CEOs for good performance. public companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

Invest in new business ideas: With financial strength in their pocketbooks and in their bank accounts, women can now even think about investing in other business ideas conceived by others women who are having trouble getting financed the conventional way. Michelle may be reached at WomenNetwork.com. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And indeed, the evidence does suggest that incentive-based pay can be damaging in many settings. The research that has been conducted on business leaders suggests that financial incentives can work… and quite often do. Given the current levels of equity compensation, this would cost the average CEO $4.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If paying excessive CEO salaries is the most maligned use of corporate funds, stock buybacks may well take second place. Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. Fewer companies would go public, instead financing themselves by taking on more debt. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

The answer is that, like most of us, directors respond to incentives. And my research suggests that those incentives need to change. We also found that directors who own more stock are more likely to discipline or fire the CEO when the stock price performance of their company has been sub-par in the previous two years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies. the notion that debt financing can be “cheap” at certain times).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Are these extreme statements?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. They are asset-light.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

and Europe, and was roughly as large as the increase in savings observed when we offered a hefty financial incentive (a 50% match) for employees to save. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors. First, defaults matter—and firms everywhere can help boost financial inclusion by nudging their employees to save.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

To do so, you need clarity around how the CDO will work with the rest of the top management team as well as incentives that support collaboration across the top executives and senior managers — something that goes beyond equity compensation. Add incentives to the mix by setting goals around the collaborative activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Lots of control is something that many CEOs have, but Zuckerberg will have something else entirely: he can't be terminated. That way, they have the maximum incentives to ensure that revenue stream remains as high as possible. But in most cases, CEOs don't own such a claim and yet still have quite a lot of control. So why IPO?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. But how do you hire for the role?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And yet from a review of the research on incentives and motivation, it is wholly unclear why such a large proportion of these executives’ compensation packages would need to be variable. Note: We are not arguing that top managers such as CEOs should be paid less. Fixating on performance can weaken it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Doctors were full-time employees on fixed salary with no perverse incentives to perform unnecessary tests or procedures. salary levels. Bottom line: U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The disgraced former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO was stripped of his knighthood "for services to banking." The scale and severity of the impact of his actions as CEO of RBS made this an exceptional case," the Honors Forfeiture Committee mandarins concluded. People respond to incentives. Yes, the sales team was (ultimately) fired.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

First, its CEO, John Legere, was ceremoniously kicked out of a Las Vegas party thrown by wireless rival AT&T. Most carriers “bake in” a financing payment into their two year plans (monthly fees implicitly include both a wireless service and a financing payment for a new device). T-Mobile uncoupled these fees. to 75 cents.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. In other words, even given the pressure CEOs are under, there is room for them to do more or less for their workers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

In the 1990s, for instance, then-CEO Mickey Drexler turned Gap around by creating a team of A-list merchants and designers, including luminaries such as Maureen Chiquet, now CEO at Chanel, and Andy Janowski, who later became CEO of Smythson. High-performing teams are the secret behind many extraordinary accomplishments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

To meet the organizational need for integrated experiences across business units, many CEOs have created new roles like Chief Digital Officer, Chief Experience Officer, Chief Customer Officer, or Chief Growth Officer. Elisa Steele at Jive Software, Jay Farner at QuickenLoans, and Susan Lintonsmith at Quiznos have even gone from CMO to CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” ” Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

In other fields, CEOs and company founders can credibly assert to be motivated mostly by things other than self-enrichment. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. But in the process he redefined that job and changed the incentives he faced to make looking out for Vanguard’s customers his main responsibility.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. In 1970, in stark contrast to today, stock-based incentives accounted for less than 1 percent of CEO remuneration. THE STORY BEGINS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company. Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

The incentive model is also adapted to support aggressive pursuit of the target budget, and a dedicated budget governance structure prevents costs from creeping back in. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO. It was apparent that others in the company shared this view.

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