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  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

higher due to the extra career-related effort. The end result is that the firm may pay for more effort than it wanted to consume. Q: Why is non-contractible information about executives important? A: Non-contractible information distorts... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04), the cofounder and managing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

group. Trading outcomes dictate permit prices, and at the end of trading, each firm calculates profits and pays over pollution penalties as needed. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911053-PDF-ENG Carbon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

that in Singapore: Empower the people to take action. The third thing was this balance he created. He talked about the three-legged stool. Kapur was one leg, the finance director the second, the creative View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a job for life... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-017.pdf Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO Authors: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf Abstract Performance-based pay is an important instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

(forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed boards of directors such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. McGinn is a professor and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that would require them to View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

and the consumers' discount factor, while statistically significant, fall in the region where PlayStation 2's position is unsustainable.   Working PapersPay Dispersion and Work Performance Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Abstract The effect of intra-firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

scientific advances beckoned but would require both funding and physical space. The Broad Institute's leaders, including Altshuler, Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, and Golub, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

stimulates greater use for a given buyer). We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. The amount paid does not have a psychological effect on use, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing and her development of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour (perhaps reflecting a lack of versatility). Answers provided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Gilmore. Steve Cunningham, director of customer listening at Cisco, agrees that it's vital to listen and respond to individual customer needs and preferences. But he believes you must also pay attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

personal models of success, the first step in the process is introspection, followed by a creative and savvy approach to one's actual next career move. In the May program, participants spent time in intensive groups. Dr. Timothy Butler, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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