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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

Fahlenbrach Publication:Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • 26 Mar 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

    overall effect. The study’s findings are relevant for practice in that they point to side effects of tournament performance evaluation schemes that might undermine effectiveness of incentive systems. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
    • June 2000 (Revised July 2000)
    • Case

    ORIX KK

    By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers
    Describes the challenges facing a Japanese financial services company as it attempts to maintain its ability to attract and retain talented employees. The CEO's ideas of corporate governance and evidence from the competitive labor environment suggest the need for more... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Geographic Location; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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    • 18 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 18

    power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jun 2008
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    First Look: June 24, 2008

    education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A replicating... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jan 2008
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    First Look: January 15, 2008

    Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment analysis. Written specifically for HBS MBA students, provides... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Jan 2012
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    First Look: Jan. 31

    duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
    • 22 Aug 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hedge Fund as Activist

    Managers of public corporations sometimes need to be reminded that they work for shareholders. Without proper monitoring, managers may receive excess compensation or perks, or misuse free cash flow. Historically, poorly performing... View Details
    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
    • 27 Mar 2012
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    First Look: March 27

    U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model.   Working PapersWhen Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation Authors:Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We examine... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Nov 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

    Fargo was asking its sales force to sell 8 products (‘Going for gr-eight’) to customers that needed fewer products.” This was coupled, as Thomas Dean put it, “with high, high pressure on line employees to perform or be fired.” Hamad... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
    • 28 Jul 2009
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    First Look: July 28

    report, new CEO Hank McKinnell discusses Pfizer's performance goals and its acquisition of Pharmacia, which gave it control of the anti-arthritis drug Celebrex. In the 2005 report, McKinnell discusses his decision to keep Celebrex on the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Jan 2023
    • In Practice

    8 Trends to Watch in 2023

    As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 11 Oct 2016
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    October 11, 2016

    to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

    It sounds almost paradoxical. A quiet leader? Yet quiet leaders—managers who apply modesty, restraint, and tenacity to solve particularly difficult problems—are more common than we think, says Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Badaracco. In his new book... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 14 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

    works for some people, but not others. There is a lot more performance pressure and accountability" In some ways, however, the company became a victim of its own success as a pioneer of organic sustainable foods. Peaking in 2013, it... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 28 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 28, 2010

    incentive to consume more applications than the social optimum to better satisfy their preference for variety); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria); and (3) a coordination... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

    By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
    We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 23 Jan 2007
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    First Look: January 23, 2007

    capacity for each business process? 2) How much resource capacity (time) is required to perform work for a company's many transactions, products, and customers? The book demonstrates how to develop simple, valid answers to these two... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 26, 2008

    about the tools and tactics for transforming organizations. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908028   PublicationsNonfinancial Performance Measures and Promotion-Based View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace