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  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

The HBS Executive Education course Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) is an intensive, one-week program that focuses on management issues unique to these firms. It provides a forum for participants from around the world to apply... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

1993) Chief Executive Officer, Asset & Wealth Management JPMorgan Chase AI and Healthcare Moderator Robert Huckman (PHDBE 2001) Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School Panelists Francesca... View Details

    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    senior executives being the big sponsors of caregiving benefits is because they’ve lived it,” Fuller says, offering a seven-point plan for managers who want to follow suit. The case for supporting caregivers Three out of four US workers... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 19 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55439 Compensation Interdependence and Performance Consequences of Managerial Discretion By: Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin Abstract— We examine the performance consequences of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    unavoidable. In such situations, companies can mitigate the hidden costs if executives develop specific policies to follow in downsizing and make everyone aware of the company’s approach and its commitment to acting fairly for all... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • January 2006
    • Article

    Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?

    By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
    A widespread view is that executive perks exemplify agency problems--they are a route through which managers misappropriate a firm's surplus. Accordingly, firms with high free cash flow, operating in industries with limited investment prospects, should offer more... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Cash Flow; Business or Company Management; Situation or Environment; Performance Productivity; Investment; Executive Compensation
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    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    skill mix variance showed the U.S. site with a 49% higher personnel cost mix, and the price (rate) variance showed that U.S. personnel had a 31% higher compensation level. The costing and variance analysis provided organizationally... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

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

    By: Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty and Michael Norton
    Two experiments, including one incentive compatible study, examine the impact of cutting pay for executives versus employees in response to COVID-19 on consumer behavior. Study 1 explores the effect of announcing cuts or no cuts to CEO and employee pay, and shows that... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Furloughs; CEO Pay Cuts; Pay Ratios; Purchase Intention; Health Pandemics; Employees; Wages; Executive Compensation; Consumer Behavior
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    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the business. I became deeply curious about how respected View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    achievement; but it's hard to credit that given the enormous inflation of top executive compensation packages in America in the last decade. Many American firms, especially most of the large ones, are more... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • October 2001 (Revised February 2007)
    • Background Note

    Accounting for Employee Stock Options

    Employees who have been granted stock options have the right to purchase shares of their company's stock at a specified price within a specified time period. The accounting for such employee stock options has been a controversial and complex topic for decades. The... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Accounting
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    • 11 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Employers Favor Men

    between one woman and one man. Each candidate’s score results on the easy questions were made available to the hiring official, but employers were not provided workers’ scores on the difficult questions--yet they were additionally told they would receive View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    wouldn’t work if the workers didn’t care and didn’t feel like the owners cared about them. Stavros and chief executive Dave Bangert dove in personally. “If people see me driving around in a truck or working in a factory all week, that... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 03 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 3

    developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2000
    • Background Note

    Note on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and Phantom Stock Plans

    By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
    Provides a brief overview of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and phantom stock plans for owners of closely held companies. ESOPs can be used as a tool of corporate financing, and can provide employees with ownership interests. Phantom stock plans can reward... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Motivation and Incentives; Management Teams; Corporate Governance; Ownership Stake; Taxation
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    • 28 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

    To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 05 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

    the R&D of incumbents do not achieve this objective because they encourage the survival and expansion of low-type firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44490 Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    every day for work, it can be painful,” she says. “As we gradually understand that our children aren’t suffering, I hope the guilt will go away.” Working moms can also take comfort from their own kids. In a panel discussion with female View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman