Students need to ask themselves if the hundreds of thousands they spend on a Harvard business degree or comparable university degree is worth it?

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Second, when it came time for the compensation consultants to advise the boards of Merrill or Goldman, the consultants could look to Grasso as a "comparable, " and say a bank CEO would be worth at least twice what the exchange boss was getting.

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