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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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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. The latter was concerned with “measuring long-term progress in the areas of diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and culture.” ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective. .”

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 The standard offers companies a structure for setting up or benchmarking an effective anti-bribery program aligned with its own risk profile, and building a culture that values ethical behavior.

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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. The culture is constantly evolving. At a large firm, a new employee steps into an existing culture, where norms are already established.

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Design Your Employee Experience as Thoughtfully as You Design Your Customer Experience

Harvard Business

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. Improving customer experience is often a top business priority, but what about employee experience?

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business

Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. “It helped us do things we couldn’t do ourselves, like creating benchmarking models and a template for our employee manual.” This multi-faceted project also helped Cabot win the 2016 U.S. . “B Corp certification lends more credence to our programs.

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

Innovation doesn't just happen in the workplace without a supportive culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences everything in the workplace. Leaders that focus on cultivating an innovation culture and developing innovative leaders outperform their competition. Organizational culture and leadership (5th ed).

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