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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. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. By taking into account the percentages of minority employees in both management and the professional workforce, an EPI analysis is a more insightful metric than simply the percentage of executives or employees who are minorities.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.