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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
rewarded, despite the fact that US companies are spending more than a fifth of their budgets on wages. What employees crave even more is to feel that their managers appreciate them and aren’t afraid to show it, not only in paycheck terms,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 21 Aug 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: August 21, 2019 - October 02, 2019 View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details
- 29 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction
- 2016
- Working Paper
Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm
By: Dylan Minor
We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and the magnitude of environmental harm by over 100%. We document... View Details
Keywords: Misconduct; Environmental Performance; Accounting Scandal; Sustainable Finance; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
Minor, Dylan. "Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-076, January 2016. (Revised April 2016.)
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
maintain that it is, above all, intended for those who need a change. Although their book can benefit anyone in business, the authors maintain that it is, above all, intended for those who need a change. The authors wrote Discovering Your... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) Benefits of TDABC for Health Care Q: How is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) useful in health care? A: TDABC provides accurate and actionable data that improves... View Details
- May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis
By: Robert C. Pozen and Peter Goodspeed Spring
In March of 2009, Lincoln Financial Group's CEO Dennis Glass was facing a difficult decision as to how he would replenish his company's capital, which could quickly fall to dangerously low levels as a result of the financial crisis. Though the cost of raising capital... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Capital; Private Equity; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Insurance Industry
Pozen, Robert C., and Peter Goodspeed Spring. "Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 310-137, May 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in VCPE & Investing
investment with a focus on the benefits of sustainable investment, best practices, and lessons for the future. Private Equity for the Public Interest: The Evolution of ESG and Considerations for Asset View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 30 Oct 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: October 30, 2019 - December 11, 2019 View Details
- March 1987 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc.
By: Kenneth A. Merchant, Krishna G. Palepu and Joseph P. Mulloy
Describes a dispute between the owners of the major league baseball teams and the players' union about the profitability of the baseball teams. The issue is important because of the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations. A consultant is brought in to decide... View Details
Keywords: State Ownership; Compensation and Benefits; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Labor and Management Relations; Financial Management; Sports; Sports Industry; Kansas
Merchant, Kenneth A., Krishna G. Palepu, and Joseph P. Mulloy. "Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 187-088, March 1987. (Revised July 1996.)
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
lot of firms fall into this difficult situation. They have to manage a delicate balance of who they should meet with, how much time they should spend [in meetings], and 'what's the benefit for us?' " Soltes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
number of people who can benefit from the ideas and scholarship developed at the School," says Stevens, who, with his wife, Mary, is a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors and a founding donor to HBX. Their leadership support of HBX... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
more important, Choudhury says, as people increasingly choose to live and work close to where they grew up, often foregoing economic opportunity to do so. “Vacation flexibility means being able to go to your manager and say this is when I... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz