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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-020 The Container Store The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up his majority stake so that View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2002
  • Teaching Note

Akamai's Underwater Options (A) and (B) TN

By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
Teaching Note for (9-902-069) and (9-902-195). View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Develop and sequence an optimal plan to manage through the transitions Challenge/require suppliers to do the same Collaborate within industries/sectors to identify and employ best practices Partner with policymakers to identify and... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

White Paper Competition for “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz. 2023 Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation Research Grant ($368,490) for... View Details
  • Article

Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R

By: Ian D. Gow, Mary E. Barth and Daniel Taylor
This study examines how key market participants—managers and analysts—responded to SFAS 123R's controversial requirement that firms recognize stock-based compensation expense. Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from pro forma... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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  • December 1999 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

Prime Designs

By: Paul W. Marshall
A student takes the role of the father who is the CEO of a family business. A non-family manager has asked for a meeting. Agenda topics are: your son's latest proposal and managers' desire to own equity. View Details
Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Family Ownership; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to the two largest markets, the US and China. Family, Finance and Philanthropy Anne McClintock, Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving at HBS; Alasdair H. Halliday, Director, University Planned... View Details
  • January 1996
  • Case

Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver and David Stemerman
A company nears the end of a long multiyear turnaround and now must consider how to "cash out" so its management can realize a financial return on investment. The privately held company has several options, including a leveraged ESOP and a leveraged recapitalization. View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Capital; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Private Ownership
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  • 26 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

asking include: What type of equity am I being offered? Not all equity is created equally. Most commonly, employees will be offered Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), Non-Qualified View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. The... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

“Leaving Intuit Discussion.” That ended the uncertainty of who was and was not being laid off. Financial support was fair, with layoffs timed to enable employee vesting schedules for company stock and annual... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • News

Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

    Howard Schultz

    Not only did Schultz foresee that a large-scale coffee shop chain was a lucrative business, but he maintained Starbucks lead through a combination of customer and employee satisfaction plans. Schultz’s plan... View Details
    Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging