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  • 30 Jan 2012
  • News

The Perils of High CFO Incentive Pay

    Ashley V. Whillans

    Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details

    • April 2009 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    Sermo, Inc.

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lars Peter Christian Nielsen
    Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and to discuss these concerns, as well as challenges with managing their practices.... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Knowledge Sharing; Two-Sided Platforms; Conflict and Resolution; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States
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    • May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

    By: Willy Shih
    This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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    • October 1987 (Revised July 1991)
    • Case

    Tiffany & Co.

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    This premier retail jewelry company was bought from its parent, Avon, by a group of investors led by its own management in 1984. The company was highly leveraged, financially, and had to scramble to meet the cash flow and earnings requirements laid down by its lenders.... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Price; Going Public; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    National Electric Corporation

    By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
    A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis
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      Christopher T. Stanton

      Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

        John Beshears

        John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

        • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
        • Supplement

        Genzyme Center (B)

        By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
        Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
        Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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        • March 2016
        • Article

        Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach

        By: Malcolm Baker, Brock Mendel and Jeffrey Wurgler
        We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is consistent with a... View Details
        Keywords: Investment
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          Signaling with Dividends

          We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are behaviorally averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is... View Details

            Jillian J. Jordan

            Jillian Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.

            Professor Jordan’s research investigates moral... View Details
            • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
            • Case

            Genzyme Center (A)

            By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
            Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
            Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
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              Lauren H. Cohen

              Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

              Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
              • 12 Feb 2008
              • First Look

              First Look: February 12, 2007

              but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management... View Details
              Keywords: Martha Lagace

                Robert F. White

                Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details

                  Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

                  A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details

                    Ayelet Israeli

                    Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches... View Details
                    Keywords: retailing; e-commerce industry; internet; automotive
                    • 14 Jan 2014
                    • News

                    Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

                    • Research Summary

                    Information Intermediation

                    Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details