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13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities to score quick wins. Clearing... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

means closeness, and while social distancing remains important to mitigating the spread of COVID-19, psychological proximity—interpersonal trust, alignment on values and strategy, shared understanding of key facts—has never been more... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

do, measure how well we execute, and create options for doing even better—including improving DBS itself.” Cost cutting is inevitable in dire times, but the current crisis is an opportunity for an intense questioning of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

December 2003
Article

Expensing Stock Options: A Fair-Value Approach

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Stock Options; Value

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Peek into the MBA | MBA

clear understanding of the different MBA formats and explore which option aligns best with your aspirations. Learn how the MBA curriculum is designed to develop leadership, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills. What is the MBA... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years ahead, stock View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

doesn’t always have to be time consuming or distracting. The company Amplitude challenged how businesses handle equity compensation by extending the company options exercise windows to years versus the standard 90-day window most... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

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Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Option 1: Add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions researchgrid$ chmod u+x *.pdf Option 2: Alternate way to add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions. ‘r’ has View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Fall Reunions

today. In mentioning the School's Leadership and Values Initiative, Clark noted, “The world rightly holds us to a higher standard. And so we must have great aspirations.” With more than thirty faculty presentations and panels to chose... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

team researched the types of plastic available to them, seeking options that did the least damage to the environment. Recyclable and recycled plastic intrigued them as a relatively sustainable solution, but the team worried that it was... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

desires) ... Why should it be any different for the high-flyers? If they are truly good, is it really necessary to pay them more than they can ever hope to spend?" As Stever Robbins says, "Alignment is still a great idea. We've not seen alignment with recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

Equity compensation can be an exciting ownership opportunity — but also one that can feel enormously complicated and confusing. When new hires receive equity grants as part of their compensation package, they often find themselves feeling a mix of excitement and... View Details

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so states can deliver quality,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

19 Jan 2022

Peek

This three day virtual program is intended for current undergraduate students who are interested in getting a peek into the MBA experience and to learn more about the value of an MBA for their personal and professional development. Peek... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

motivations for prosocial behavior, such as volunteering and charitable giving. These insights are important not only for nonprofits trying to motivate donors to give, but also for almost any company that wants to convince consumers the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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