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- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
recently featured in the Harvard Gazette’s To Serve Better Project. Before landing at Save the Bay, Stone worked as an investment manager and securities analyst in financial services; he also co-founded an investment View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors
By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-018, August 2010.
- 28 May 2020
- News
How to Monitor Your Employees — While Respecting Their Privacy
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
organization, and think strategically,” says Spreng. “It benefited me tremendously throughout my career.” He went on to a 40-year career in high-tech manufacturing and marketing, including serving as a group general View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Profile
Jan Petzel
acquainted with Community Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
Benefit When Employees Work Remotely These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too [Image: GermanS62] View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
drugs for chronic conditions—from pharmacies to a combination of direct mail and telephone. The idea was that if you have a chronic condition, you're in a replenishment mode. You have to fill the prescription regularly over a number of... View Details
- December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
STT Aerospace
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann
Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low.... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Business Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Acquisition; Product Development; Aerospace Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jeremy Dann. "STT Aerospace." Harvard Business School Case 399-056, December 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
platforms that other developers have already joined or will join. Then they can benefit from network effects,” Wu says. “Without seeing other developers at a hackathon, it would be hard to know how many developers are excited about a... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- October 2004 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization
By: David A. Thomas, Boris Groysberg and Cate Reavis
Describes the steps the vice-president of human resources takes in revamping an HR function that was noncooperative and, at times, competitive and introducing the company to the notion of HR as a strategic business partner. Explores changes made to the company's... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Management Succession; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy
Thomas, David A., Boris Groysberg, and Cate Reavis. "Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization." Harvard Business School Case 405-009, October 2004. (Revised September 2005.)
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
model? A: Employers that currently provide insurance benefits advocate consumer-driven health care because it cannot be worse than the present managed care system, whose costs escalate at double-digit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
their companies, they would usually invite us in.” Johnson later founded Asset Management Company in 1967, investing primarily in computer and health care concerns. His advice and counsel also have benefited... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
case in point. The retired director of planned giving at Lehigh University and head of his family's real-estate and investment management firm, Thun first learned about the SEI during an HBS reunion presentation. As his 50th Reunion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
with Children Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Program for Not-for-Profit Management Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Financial Aid Fund George and Edith Weed Willman Fund “It would have been difficult for me to attend HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lab Work
After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions." One implication for executives: Don't lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will benefit by the knowledge that flows to... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out of a need Kelleher saw in her... View Details
Keywords: April White