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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. ” What has emerged more recently is the use of nonfinancial, but still objective, KPIs. .”

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TeBIT 2016 Executive Report: Drilling for Digital Gold

BCG

Report Monday, October 10, 2016. It’s just the type of question that TeBIT, a benchmarking study jointly developed by ETIS–The Community for Telecom Professionals and The Boston Consulting Group, was created to answer. They can also discuss their individual results with the TeBIT benchmarking team.

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Building a Digital Technology Foundation in Insurance

BCG

Article Monday, August 29, 2016. And we analyzed the main IT trends on the basis of four years of architecture benchmarking with top insurers in the German market. Insurers today face a host of digital to-dos if they want to stay competitive—much less gain an advantage on their peers.

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What Makes Family Businesses in Emerging Markets So Different?

BCG

Article Thursday, September 08, 2016. In some emerging markets, more than half of the largest companies are family businesses. Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. Emerging markets present a distinctive context for operating a family business.

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Global Corporate Banking 2016: The Next-Generation Corporate Bank

BCG

Report Monday, December 12, 2016. In fact, BCG’s most recent Corporate Banking Performance Benchmarking survey—of 300 corporate banking divisions around the world serving the small, midmarket, and large business segments—found a dramatic split between the best and the rest. Corporate banking is a tough business.

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6 Things New Grads Should Know Before Joining a Startup

Harvard Business

In fact, according to a 2016 survey by Accenture, only 14% of U.S. It’s also going to be a lot harder to benchmark the offer they give you against salaries at other firms. Go work for a big company and you’ll have plenty of resources – an HR department, a tech department, a marketing team. And benefits?

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The EU Needs to Make Sure Continental Countries Don’t Exit

Harvard Business

Global stock markets promptly floundered. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned.