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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

And yet the ecosystem supporting diversity is quite large — government agencies, formal corporate diversity programs, universities, consultants, and dozens of civil rights advocacy groups. In 1967 African-American median household income was 55% that of whites; in 2016 that number was 61%. So why has change been so slow?

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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.