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01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

the people below you were paid. One consequence of the trend in going outside the company to hire a new CEO was that pay became set across a horizontal spectrum, decoupling it from the internal labor market as well as the specific culture... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

and trends and incontrovertible data—and know where things are going and help their firm steer in that direction. On the environmental side, if we just take ESG, right, and run through some of the issues associated with that: Looking at... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

accelerating. And that has a huge impact on the second major trend and that is that, 20 years ago, this was not on the agenda of most businesses. Some companies had the foresight to understand this 20 years ago, but most CEOs were not... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

capable of competing with the big guys: NBC, CBS, and ABC." Underscoring its belief in the value of sports programming, Fox recently purchased (pending Major League Baseball's approval) the Los Angeles Dodgers, another example of a trend... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

Packard Foundation, involves ramping up leadership and skills training for nonprofit executives. “With trends in the sector pushing toward larger, more complex organizations focused more on how to deliver results, there’s an increased... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Organizations." Coote noted that trends such as intense competition, faster cycle times, slimmer margins, and new business models have forced widespread company restructurings - changes that corporate information technology (IT)... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

policy, the development of investment theory, and the emergence of new investment structures. The authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge... View Details

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