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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Groysberg and Maxim Pike Harrell May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In June 2025, IQanat CEO Aliya Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

or she did a good job." Ashok Malhotra favors "reasonable incentives for short-term performance" and "higher incentives for long-term performance." The rationale, as Mark Evans explains, is that "a CEO must... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

climate change and their discipline through examples of cases they have written or taught. 9:40 a.m. Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits? Faculty Moderator: Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989) , Baker Foundation Professor Speakers: Scott Jacobs (MBA... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52312 Equality and Equity in Compensation By: Bao, Jiayi, and Andy Wu Abstract—Equity compensation is widely used for incentivizing skilled employees,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

a 20 percent reduction. After it was forced to close many of its stores, Columbia Sportwear’s CEO Tim Boyle announced he would reduce his compensation to $10,000 (from $3 million View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

are more accurate. Accurate quantile forecasts at different horizons are critical to many operational decisions, such as capacity and inventory management. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55096 Analyzing the Aftermath of a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2018 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO says at an open meeting that he... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

from foreign countries, raise their hand. "What do you associate with it?" The yellow border, answers one. Others note the stunning photography, detailed maps, and magazines piled up all around the house. A few minutes later National Geographic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

heard." "Retailers like Mercadona and QuikTrip have created ways to institutionalize improvement.” Ton notes that another commonality between QuikTrip and Mercadona lies in the strongly held values of its leadership. QuikTrip's View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction

By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

Teams: Managing SPLIT to Bridge Social Distance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-014 Rana Plaza (C): Primark and Victim Compensation On... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law firm in China. After the merger, a refined A-B-C-D model is still in use as compensation system, although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

oneself and to engage in moral compensation by behaving prosocially. We established the role that impurity played in these effects through mediation and moderation. We found that inauthenticity-induced cleansing and compensatory helping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

giving every employee a financial stake in a company, something KKR has completed with eight of its investments, with more in the works. Stavros’s model for broad-based ownership begins with equity grants: stocks, which vest over time, given to each employee as part of... View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

Associates (New York City), in a recent company publication. "Business units have used their budgets as a bargaining chip, bidding high to get a larger slice of the pie while keeping their cards close to their chest. "The CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • Web

Career Support - Business & Environment

consumer products, healthcare, biotech, media and entertainment, and more. In partnership with BEI and Rock, Shara Ticku (MBA 2017), Co-founder and CEO of c16 Biosciences, will be joining as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. BEI Meetaway... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 26

self-employment. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic, with elasticity estimates ranging between -3.1 and -5.3. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

"The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury resort as opposed to a modest conference room?" the authors... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert