Publications

29 Sep 2008
News

BOOK REVIEW 'The Execution Premium'

TeachingInterests

Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education

By: Robert S. Huckman

While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of health care organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, health care leaders are being held accountable for... View Details

July 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Supplement

Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

As the recession lingered on into 2009, the U.S. government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive risk and how best to mitigate it. This case describes the government restrictions on executive pay for TARP... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Motivation and Incentives; United States

May 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Incentive Strategy II: Executive Compensation and Ownership Structure

By: Brian J. Hall

This case analyzes incentive strategy from the perspective of a company's board of directors and owners. The focus is the role that executive compensation and ownership structure (the composition of, and financial structure between, a company's owners) play in... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Ownership; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Strategy; Value Creation

Educators

17 Dec 2009
News

Harvard Business School Faculty Critique Executive Compensation

March 2014
Module Note

How to Execute Global Strategies?

By: Juan Alcácer

June 1979 (Revised September 1980)
Case

Biography of an Executive (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Biography

01 Nov 2004
News

Wild West of Executive Coaching

Keywords: Stratford Sherman, Alyssa Freas

Video

OnBoard The Board Chair – Executive Director Relationship

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries! It turns out that this is... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

January 1989 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Xerox Corp.: Executive Support Systems

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

April 1987 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Lockheed-Georgia Co.: Executive Information Systems

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry

March 1996
Supplement

Executive Shirt Company, Inc.: Analysis

By: Janice H. Hammond

Presents a follow-up. View Details

Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States