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Why Your Organization Should Use Salary Benchmarking

Harvard Business

A key solution lies in salary benchmarking — using aggregated market data to establish competitive pay rates. payroll processing company revealed that access to robust benchmarking tools doubled the probability of firms setting the “right” salary. Recent research in collaboration with a leading U.S.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important.

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The Chimera of Consulting: Government and Public Sector Advising

Tom Spencer

Nevertheless, government and public sector advising is a beast of its own kind, a chimera which incorporates many of the business solutions of conventional management consultancy, but borrows its outlook and conceptual framework from think-tanks and policy-hubs. Different stakeholders.

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Assessment: How Successful Was Your Company’s Reorg?

Harvard Business

All will require companies — and governments — to rethink the ways they are organized. By completing it, you will be able to benchmark your company’s reorg against a number of best practices, identified in our book, ReOrg: How to Get it Right. Did your reorg meet your expectations?

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Research: Index Funds Are Improving Corporate Governance

Harvard Business

Still, these funds retain the power of voice , the ability to exert shareholder influence on management and governance-related proposals. A growing number of passive investors insist they play a key role in corporate governance. That is precisely why we care so much about good governance.” ” Not everyone agrees. .”

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Walking the Walk & Talking the Talk of Equity Benchmarking

UPD Consulting

Analyzing equity benchmarks across a wide range of topics (i.e., The wealth of open data has placed public sector organizations in an excellent position to sponsor and coordinate more intensive, wide ranging equity benchmarking and indexing activities.