Employee Compensation - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

wages. For companies, that represents a savings of 14 percent in compensation for each employee they can move up into a phony management position, so to speak, Cohen and his co-authors report. And companies... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

Andrei Stanescu SUMMING UP Can Rules on Non-Compete Agreements Be Fixed? There is strong opposition to non-compete agreements, especially as applied to employees with low incomes. They are difficult to enforce, even where they are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(23) Commercial Banking (3) Commercialization (2) Communication Intention and Meaning (12) Communication Strategy (20) Communication Technology (9) Communication (105) Compensation and Benefits (61) Competency and Skills (73) Competition... View Details

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

When COVID-19 first sent office employees home last year, many managers filled their teams’ calendars with online check-ins, drop-ins, and updates to make up for the loss of spontaneous interactions—often sinking morale and efficiency.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

recalibrate everyone’s compensation down the road. The recalibration process is PAINFUL. Employees are driven by three major motivators: The work they do, the people they do it with, and fair View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

compensation systems linked to the scorecard and revising the planning and budgeting processes to support the strategy. They also reinforced the strategy and the scorecard at every opportunity, especially in their face-to-face meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

this book undertook major restructurings without being in a financial crisis. Compared to the rest of the U.S. airline industry, United Air Lines was in relatively strong financial condition when its employees agreed to almost $5 billion... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

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 dependent on capital markets for... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Business History - Faculty & Research

had steered Hakluyt into remarkable growth and heightened ambition. By 2023, Hakluyt had transformed into a £113.1 million business, boasting 196 employees spread across 13 strategic international offices. However, this rapid expansion... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

per time unit of supplying capacity. For example, if employees receive an 8 percent compensation increase, the resource cost rate in our example increases from $0.80 per supplied minute to $0.864 per minute.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

we shouldn’t underestimate how important it is to be seen as humble, grounded, and well-liked.” Related Reading: How to Demotivate Your Best Employees The Power of Ordinary Practices Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

until they hit the right formula. In reality, that’s problematic, says Chung. “If you want to know if a compensation plan is working or not, you need to change the compensation plan and observe and measure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

and recent alumni who are making a difference working in Africa. The GO Fellowship is awarded to a limited number of students who accept a full-time, post-HBS job in Africa, or are a founder of a new venture in Africa*, with total guaranteed annual View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

the case also provides detail on salesforce's 1-1-1 business model, whereby the company contributes 1% of product, 1% of equity, and 1% of employee hours back to the communities it serves. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2016
What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

suggested. They included such things as Fizzinnf’s suggestion that we merely ask employees whether their needs are being met, a factor contributing to a leader’s “exercise of judgment and discretion.” Mauro Ghilardi commented that “The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

28 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 28

financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with... View Details