Salary - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

pension starting from a young age ." Vernon McKenzie and Akhil Mehta described successful efforts to do just that in Australia and India, respectively. In Australia, "Every employee, by law, must contribute 9 percent of the employee's View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

was her fiduciary duty to the shareholders, so she could not shut down the mine. But— Eunjin Lee: She made the hard decision to close down a mining plant. Aastha Bhardwaj: She still paid the salaries to the workers. She said, we wouldn't... View Details

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't... View Details

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Career Support - Business & Environment

(Ongoing) Career & Professional Development Office Once matriculated, you will have access to myHBS (login required) which connects you to classmates, course work, and the CPD website (login required) . You can access a wealth of information: lists of HBS recruiting... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

recruitment, hiring, and promotion processes and by conducting pay audits to evaluate salaries by gender. Yet Cullen’s research suggests that companies may need to consider more subtle underlying forces that are holding women back,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

needs of their target customers. "WIZZIT essentially took a banking service like the one we have here—depositing salaries in the bank that we draw down to make payments—and decided that this is what the poor wanted, too," Rangan... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

wrong. That gave us a lot of clarity. And even as we did some very tough things. So we had to furlough close to 37,000 people. We had to suspend all non-essential expenditure. We had to cut salaries 50 percent, 25 percent, all the way... View Details

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

thought—a non-compete clause is not enforceable unless the employee continues to be paid by the employer—say 2/3 of salary plus benefits—until the employee finds new work with a non-competitor If the employee fails to find work at a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

or negotiating a salary that is multiples of anything your family has ever made, or keeping track of who you told what about your financial aid, or admitting you’ve never worn a tux or tailored suit. It’s humiliating having no clue what... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

airy plant; all employees are on salary and receive excellent benefits. Training programs -- for both new and current employees -- are extensive, and employee suggestions, with responses, are posted prominently on the production floor.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

sell; they hire, train, and fire team members; and they're paid a salary plus a gainsharing-based bonus based on their ability to meet or exceed plan. Everyone is eligible for stock options. Everyone can know what everyone else is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

present to the future. After all, her compensation doesn't change whether she misses the target by a little or a lot; she still gets her full salary (assuming she doesn't get fired, of course). But by shifting profits forward—by prepaying... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

to invest in a sport, Chung says, especially in light of multimillion-dollar salaries paid to head coaches like Alabama’s Nick Saban, who earns $7 million a year. If the courts allow college athletes to be paid, the information could help... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Similarly, Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Radio, persisted with his startup long after others might have called it quits, in large part because he could not face the idea of losing the money invested by his cofounders' friends or reneging on the $1 million in View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

podcast. But since we have an entrepreneur-founder in front of us, I wonder if you can talk a little bit about what are the basics of that process? So you figure we need some capital in order to invest in the app and pay salaries of... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

challenge negative stereotypes about female ambition, and urge women to be bold, follow their dreams, and seize the chance to lead “big” lives. The secret is to focus on career first, job second. Instead of chasing a better job title or a View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Performance assessment. Educate managers about gender biases that can influence evaluation decisions. Assess the criteria managers use to rate performance, and eliminate ambiguous, vague, and malleable standards. Promotion and compensation. Set clear and transparent... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

provision of home office equipment, PPE, health benefits, salary increases, and promotions. 5. Communicate and empower Many of the approaches adopted by companies in our sample require fundamental changes in employee behavior, for... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Financial Aid | MBA

Graduation Loan forgiveness, repayment assistance, and support programs that subsidize competitive salaries in careers where starting salaries are lower than those of typical MBAs. Data & Disclosure Cost of... View Details

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