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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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The Nasty Truth about CEO Pay

Harvard Business Review

Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. He managed carefully and proactively and managed to keep the stock flat at $100/share from 2007 through to the present. Black-Scholes Valuation based on stock price at issue. Most public company CEOs could tell a similar tale. Tom's Compensation.

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The Comparing Trap

Harvard Business Review

He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced. And if we manage to hit this difficult target, we simply create an even more difficult one at which we can aim. Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. You see the problem.

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Big Data's Human Component

Harvard Business Review

Any fool, or mortgage banker, can use a spreadsheet and calculate a Black-Scholes equation. There are many other risks in failing to think about Big Data as part of a human-driven discovery and management process. Although data does give rise to information and insight, they are not the same.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Even more directly, the growth in financial options can be traced largely to the ease of valuing them, which is due to the Nobel-prize winning work of Fischer Black (the MIT economist and later Goldman Sachs partner who died before he certainly would have shared in the award), Myron Scholes (formerly of Stanford) and MIT’s Robert Merton.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, in the 1980s Peter Drucker, the management expert who correctly understood that the purpose of the business corporation is to create customers rather than profits for shareholders, touted 20:1 as a sufficiently high ratio for any company in any country, including the United States.

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