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Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries

By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider
When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Organizations; Performance Expectations; Price; Competency and Skills; Quality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Selection and Staffing; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2004
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Executive Compensation In Entrepreneurial Teams: The Founder Gap, Board Membership, & Pay For Milestones

By: Noam Wasserman
Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Groups and Teams; Governance
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  • Web

HBS - From The Dean

our programs, equipping future leaders with the judgement and skills to manage an ever more global and diverse workforce. And we must push ourselves with the same urgency we've demonstrated during the... View Details
  • August 2008
  • Case

Sloan & Harrison: The Associate Challenge

By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was confronting issues pertaining to morale and turnover among its associate ranks. Annual surveys of associates revealed increasing dissatisfaction, particularly with respect to partner communication, work-life balance, and mentorship.... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employees; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Style; Performance; Work-Life Balance; Conflict Management; Legal Services Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism

By: Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Suraj Srinivasan
Using a comprehensive sample for 2004–2012, we examine the impact of shareholder activist campaigns on the careers of directors of targeted firms. We find that activism is associated with directors being almost twice as likely to leave—and performance-sensitivity of... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Hedge Funds; Independent Directors; Director Reputation; Accountability; Shareholder Voting; Voting; Retention; Investment Funds; Management Teams; Investment Activism
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  • March 2025
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Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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  • 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

consideration: the first (1760-1840), second (1840-1950), or third (1950-present). The mix presented fundamental business problems involving marketing, finance, operations, and human resource management.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Jun 2019
  • News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on IT services in 2018 and the... View Details
Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • October 1982 (Revised December 1984)
  • Case

Air Traffic Controllers (Condensed)

By: Michael Beer
Keywords: Government Administration; Labor and Management Relations; Human Resources; Management; Public Administration Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

do some sophisticated talent arbitrage” In order to gauge the effect on executive pay, the researchers obtained a data set from a large global headhunting company, one of many consulting firms that act as intermediaries between companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

consequences their practices have. To help managers become more effective, we suggest that researchers should investigate the challenge that managers face: how organizations can balance their economic... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Career Coach

Cheryl Rousseau

While a Senior Vice President for global consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), Cheryl was invited to join their International Center for Executive Options (ICEO) practice where she is a Confidential Advisor and Coach to C-Suite and... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Sahlman discusses how Khan Academy, a global online education nonprofit, strives to balance founder Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) vision with the need to focus and scale. Prediction: How AI Will Affect Business, Work, and Life Bill Kerr speaks... View Details
  • November 2013
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Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

By: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using... View Details
Keywords: CEO Compensation; International Pay; Incentives; Cross-listing; United Kingdom; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Globalization; Corporate Governance; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • August 1999
  • Case

Leaving

By: David A. Thomas
A company supervisor listens to an employee, an African American woman, announce she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation. View Details
Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Retention; Race; Behavior; Diversity; Interpersonal Communication; Labor and Management Relations
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details
  • 2006
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Empowering Nurses at University College London Hospitals

By: Julie Battilana, A.-M., Cagna, T., D'Aunno and M.J., Gilmartin
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; London
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  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

then Liberia would be unlikely, in our opinion, not to grow at double-digit rates from the moment that the ore is exported in quantity, so long as market conditions for natural resources remain strong," the report concludes. But... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

sustaining a Human Resources function that brings value to the business. One of these values will come through better management and analysis of data that connect the View Details