Publications

Educators

October 2006
Article

Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New Ventures

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Business Ventures

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17 Jun 2016
News

The Secret Economic And Career Benefits Of Taking Vacation

May 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Teaching Note

Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Doug J. Chung

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 517-090, 517-133, 519-095, and 519-096. View Details

2004
Case

Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools

By: Allen Grossman, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Jennifer Suesse

Keywords: Education; Urban Scope; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Colorado

30 Oct 2017
News

Could a CVS-Aetna deal actually benefit consumers?

Spring 2014
Article

The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity

By: Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino and Anat Keinan

Keywords: Status and Position; Societal Protocols

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10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

number of execs with at least one stigma on their resume was large, accounting for 18 percent of more than 2,000 executives placed between 2004 and 2011. After controlling for education, gender, experience, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

December 1994
Article

Benefits of Narrow Business Strategies

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Business Strategy

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July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation committee had to decide whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Stock Options; Stock Shares; Annual Reports; Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry

Educators

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

A friend who just entered the Class of 2018 recently shared with me that upon letting a few mentors know about her acceptance, one of them called her immediately and said — I have only one piece of advice for you: live on campus. My... View Details

17 Nov 2021
Podcast

Lisa Cook on why inclusion benefits the economy and economics

Economist Lisa Cook discusses her pioneering work on the cost of exclusion—the economic consequences of innovation lost due to racism and sexism. The versatile scholar and policy expert also reflects on her career path and her role in promoting diversity in the field... View Details

April 1994
Article

Salesforce Compensation Plans: An Individual Level Analysis

By: R. Lal, D. Outland and R. Staelin

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

22 Apr 2014
News

Being 'helpful' has mutual benefits

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), director of the Global Strategy Advisory of Citi, sees her role is being "helpful" to the governments and societies in which she works. (Published April 2014) View Details

1992
Chapter

Reward Systems in the Role of Compensation

By: M. Beer

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives

March 2012
Teaching Note

Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
Case

Hawthorne (B): The Hawthorne Compensation Consulting Practice

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Geoffrey Love

Keywords: Markets; Compensation and Benefits; Strategy

November 1986 (Revised June 1987)
Case

Fieldcrest Division of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.: Compensation System for Field Sales Representatives

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Focuses on the compensation plan for Fieldcrest sales representatives. Management is reviewing the structure of the plan and must decide how to establish compensation goals and guidelines for the following year so that sales efforts are allocated among products and/or... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Competitive Strategy; Compensation and Benefits

Educators

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

have had the opportunity to learn from them. 3. I learned to take a position and express my thoughts in a convincing manner Every student is expected to contribute his or her views on the case questions. All present have read the case, so... View Details

Article

Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim

We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct, and they had left the organization... View Details

Keywords: Financial Misconduct; Stigma; Finance; Crime and Corruption; Executive Compensation; Employees; Compensation and Benefits