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Finance

A Better Way to Fix Bankers’ Pay

by Shumeet Banerji
Instead of bashing bonuses, let’s put in place the incentives we need: linking compensation to risk and capital.
 
Finance


A Global Financial Governance Primer

by Alan Gemes, Peter T. Golder, and Thorsten Liebert
Government leaders are designing the next regulatory regime for banks; their answers to four basic questions will determine how well it works.
Finance


What Banking Needs to
Become

by Vanessa Wallace and Andrew Herrick
Regulations and consumer expectations are changing. The business models, capabilities, and practices of the financial-services industry must change with them.
Innovation

Profits Down, Spending Steady: The Global Innovation 1000

by Barry Jaruzelski and Kevin Dehoff
Booz & Company’s annual study of the world’s biggest corporate R&D spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession — and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.
 

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Thought Leaders

Paradox of Capitalism

Economist Robert Reich believes that the excesses of capitalism have produced a world order in which people feel good as consumers but suffer as citizens.
INTERVIEW: David MacKay on how arithmetic and rational analysis can wean us off fossil fuels
CREATIVE MIND: Ikujiro Nonaka helps corporations create knowledge more consciously
INTERVIEW: Tim Brown on how customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices
Business Literature

Author’s Choice: The Successful Entrepreneur’s Secret

Scott D. Anthony, author of The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, introduces a lesson in correcting your company’s course from Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company — and Revolutionized an Industry, by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler.
KNOWLEDGE REVIEW: Selling Gets Complex The Internet, technology, and globalization have changed this age-old game for good
BOOKS IN BRIEF A review of Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, by William J. Holstein
Recent Research

Location, Location, Location

Where a company is based is a determining factor in whether venture capital firms choose to invest in it.
ORGANIZATIONS & PEOPLE Fear of unemployment is linked to declining health and increased stress
RESUMING OPERATIONS The challenges business owners faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
MANAGEMENT How deliberate interruptions can improve the health of organizations
MEDIA HYPE The effect of news accounts on investor behavior in booming markets
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Motivating Talent in a Contracting Economy

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the internationally renowned authority on talent management and author of Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press, forthcoming) discusses specific ways companies can leverage a recessionary environment to attract and retain the best and brightest talent.