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  • April 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

TD Canada Trust (A): The Green and the Red

By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan
The case series illustrates the role of performance measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Commercial Banking; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; Canada
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  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 30 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Consumers Punish Firms that Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • January 31, 2019
    • Article

    The Backlash to Larry Fink's Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

    By: Mark R. Kramer
    Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his company would change its hiring and potentially its compensation structure to advance diversity and ensure that... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose
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    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    testimonies in court documents, sources that were not yet available for earlier books on Enron. In addition, he interviewed former Enron executives and acquired internal Enron documents, which extended and deepened his research.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
    • Case

    Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Media; Race; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Social Issues; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 07 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7

    Harvard Business School Case 714-519 Bitcoin: The Future of Digital Payments? No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Bitcoin--The-Future-of-Di/an/714519-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-052 The Special Master for TARP View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

    Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan
    • 14 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
    • 01 May 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

    Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit?... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
    • Case

    KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (A)

    By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
    This case examines the decision by private equity firm KKR to grant equity to every employee at portfolio company CHI Overhead Doors upon purchasing the company in 2015. The case explores whether this initiative will create shared value, growing profits through better... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Improvement; Profit Sharing; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture
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    • June 2007 (Revised April 2008)
    • Case

    Say on Pay

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan and Alexis Chernak
    Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders have successfully garnered a majority in support of an advisory vote measure on company proxy... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

    By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
    This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result
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      [Dissertation Research] Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams

      My dissertation (2013 Organization Science/ INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist) examines the dynamics and creative performance of multicultural teams. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, I introduce the concept of "cultural... View Details

      • 09 Jul 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

      "the top 200 chief executives at public companies with at least $1 billion in revenue got a big pay raise over last year," with a median 2012 compensation package of $15.1 million, up 16 percent... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Aisner

        Jay W. Lorsch

        Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

        • 06 Jan 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

        sideshow distracting us from deeper flaws in accounting standards, compensation philosophy, and professional standards in the financial services industry. If the advocates of expensing win their small point and the spotlight on corporate... View Details
        Keywords: by William Sahlman