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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her “baby” to a new CEO. “In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of compensation and issues around building a board,” says Wasserman. “After... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
HBS provides students with financial assistance from classroom to career. SUPPORTING STUDENTS The School provides similar opportunities to MBA students interested in exploring careers during the summer in sectors that don’t traditionally offer sufficient View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at HBS, Castro worked with her on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
worker-management culture. However, the company was best known for its compensation system, paying its workers on a piecework basis, coupled with bonuses based on company revenues. Although this often resulted in average annual pay for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
at all levels. It helps people understand our revitalization process, so they can tie their own efforts to it and feel they’re part of the organization’s progress. In the area of productivity and incentives, we’ve linked compensation to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Post’s total 2006 revenue of $676 million is on track to fall 29 percent by 2010 and 37 percent five years after that. Online gains wouldn’t even begin to compensate for print losses until 2015, and it could take well past the year 2020... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Sarbanes-Oxley. We’ve also made changes in corporate governance — mandating independent audit committees, independent compensation committees, and independent nominating and corporate governance committees. All this has been part of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
accountable?” He also expressed concern that too much emphasis is placed on independent board members. “The more independent, the more ignorant,” he said. “Sector experts can be very helpful.” On the Continent, executive compensation is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
inculcate a higher sense of ethics in the national and international leaders it anoints. There must be a countervailing force to compensate for the all-too-often glorified notion of profit at all costs — now. Growing the pie for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
in driving further innovation. It found that those patents filed by gender-balanced teams were cited much more frequently than those filed by single-gender teams. The Paycheck Fairness Act has brought attention to the compensation gap... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
highest-paid CEOs in 2011 through 2014, Clifford explains how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country’s richest CEOs and argues that those companies could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
began to think that “the compensation was no longer commensurate with the risks.” With the aim of cutting back on the workload, she and her partner decided to stop raising new funds. At the same time, her growing appreciation of greener... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat organization where people are empowered, and they... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Generally compensated by being recommended as debt collection agents, they mailed accounts of an individual’s net worth, character, habits, and time in business to the closest Dun office, where clerks were paid about $3 a week to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
less, and people like their jobs less because their compensation is lower. And their compensation is lower because they’ve been separated from human involvement and human contact. People are saying, “It’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
compensated and paid for what they do. But the challenges that they face, as on average 20- 25-year-old men are not that dissimilar to what someone who's just, in general 20-25. They've got families. They've got friends. They've got loved... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
building interpersonal relationships. I was the head of the compensation promotion committee at Morgan Stanley that had to evaluate and weigh his 360-degree performance reviews, so I know every breath in that case. I’ve taught it 500... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
always had the feeling that HBS was in the business of training leaders, and consequently I feel that you have to bear some responsibility for what your graduates have done to this country. HBS and other business schools have long been aware of the dangers in the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn credentials. Such programs are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie