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Don't Blame Your Company's Poor Performance on Its Industry

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, our study shows that the biggest variations in TSR are not between industries but within them. But the TSR variations of companies within these industries were far greater: 44 percentage points in tobacco and 69 percentage points in computers and peripherals. For them, industry was not destiny. So how do the winners do it?

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Designing CEO Pay to Drive "Good" Behavior

Harvard Business Review

For long-term incentive plans, the dominant measure is total shareholder return (TSR). The primary measurement it uses in its recommendation on each company's advisory 'say on pay' vote is the movement of the CEO's pay in relation to the company's one- and three-year TSR. bonus plans, according to our research. The objective?

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen. Ronaldo Schmitz), one Asian (myself) and one Canadian (Dr. John McArthur).

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