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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

other colleagues published an experimental study showing that organizations can encourage honest reporting on financial documents—for example, expense reports or tax forms—simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form so that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 1997
  • Chapter

Applications of Option-Pricing Theory: Twenty-Five Years Later

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Stock Options; Mathematical Methods
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  • 12 May 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Equality and Equity in Compensation

Keywords: by Jiayi Bao and Andy Wu
  • November 1999 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Seitel, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins
The company's accounting for its seismic data library is questioned. Teaching Purpose: Inventory accounting. View Details
Keywords: Stock Shares; Financial Statements; Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Stock Options; Mathematical Methods; Accounting Industry
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Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers

By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
In a repeated game setting of a vertically related industry, we study the collusive effects of vertical mergers. We show that any vertical merger facilitates upstream collusion, no matter how large (in terms of capacity or size of product portfolio) the integrated... View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; United States
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  • March 1999 (Revised October 2009)
  • Background Note

Deferred Compensation

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
Briefly discusses two of the major tax doctrines--constructive receipt and economic benefits--which govern the structure of deferred compensation contracts. Some business context is provided and some implications are noted. View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry
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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

to see how off-balance sheet debt affects the company's performance, they can easily adjust the financials for that affect. If they want to see how expensing stock options... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

want the right to go after that money? This doesn't mean you don't trust your top executives. It's just good sound governance, good sound executive pay practice. It's not personal. Expensing options created... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 27 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

Surging inflation drove many consumers to cheaper brands or lower-quality products, but new data suggests that switching might not have saved them as much as they might have expected. During the most recent period of high inflation, prices of the least View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

however, attached conditions to this course of action, typically involving some kind of financial penalty. For example, Walter Blass suggested "a negotiated skipping of his bonus, or stock options... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Technical Note

A Note on Compensation

By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris
This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details
Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States
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  • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
  • Supplement

Messer Griesheim (B)

By: Josh Lerner, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Eva Lutz and Kerry Herman
In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Godlman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Greisheim, a European industrial gas concern held by Hoeschst. The dealmakers faced several challenges, including delicate corporate governance issues due to partial family... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Stock Options; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; Europe
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  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

replication technique behind the Black-Scholes/Merton options model. The simulations focus on a single stock and a risk-free discount bond, which are used to replicate a contingent payoff. The underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

HRA-Public Option combination, employers that are now compelled to continually raise out-of-pocket expenses to employees to control health care costs will no longer be caught in the middle between the... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

additional career risk from the disclosure. Disclosures inform the labor market about ability, but management may be able to do relatively little to change the outcome of those disclosures. For example, a disclosure about stock View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
  • Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall
Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry
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  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

are quite different. You have to align their incentives, which means heavily weight the compensation of the management team to stock options, so that what makes them rich makes the shareholders rich. AG: The unstated supposition is that... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

desires) ... Why should it be any different for the high-flyers? If they are truly good, is it really necessary to pay them more than they can ever hope to spend?" As Stever Robbins says, "Alignment is still a great idea. We've not seen alignment with recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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