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  • July 2010
  • Article

Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church

By: Christopher Parsons, J. Hartzell and D. Yermack
We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43‐year panel data set. The church appears to use pay‐for‐performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Organizations; Religion; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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Parsons, Christopher, J. Hartzell, and D. Yermack. "Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 509–538.
  • March 1989 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

Metabo GmbH & Co. KG

By: Robert S. Kaplan
A privately owned German power tool company was dissatisfied with its existing cost system. The system could not produce timely accurate reports on cost center operations, and newly purchased automated machines were attracting large overhead costs. A new, highly... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Budgets and Budgeting; Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Reports; Private Ownership; Business or Company Management; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Metabo GmbH & Co. KG." Harvard Business School Case 189-146, March 1989. (Revised March 1999.)

    New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

    Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing... View Details

    • March 2015
    • Background Note

    Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures

    By: Ramana Nanda, Robert White and Stephanie Puzio
    Setting equitable and "market" level compensation for founders and early employees of startups is one of the most important elements of a new venture. It is not only central to attract and retain the best human capital for the startup, but is critical to align... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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    Nanda, Ramana, Robert White, and Stephanie Puzio. "Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures." Harvard Business School Background Note 815-074, March 2015.
    • August 1998
    • Case

    Record Masters

    By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
    Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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    Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "Record Masters." Harvard Business School Case 899-020, August 1998.
    • September 2003 (Revised September 2018)
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    RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel

    By: Kathleen McGinn and Dina Witter
    This exercise requires students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. The exercise presents a one-issue, distributive negotiation that... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Retail Industry
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    McGinn, Kathleen, and Dina Witter. "RetailMax: Role for Regan Kessel." Harvard Business School Exercise 904-025, September 2003. (Revised September 2018.)
    • September 2003 (Revised October 2020)
    • Exercise

    RetailMax: Role for Cam Archer

    By: Kathleen McGinn and Dina Witter
    This exercise requires students to enact an internal salary negotiation, taking on the roles of Cam Archer, a star employee, and Regan Kessel, a VP trying to attract the MBA into his department. The exercise presents a one-issue, distributive negotiation that... View Details
    Keywords: BATNA; Decision Trees; Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Retail Industry
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    McGinn, Kathleen, and Dina Witter. "RetailMax: Role for Cam Archer." Harvard Business School Exercise 904-024, September 2003. (Revised October 2020.)
    • 2013
    • Article

    Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?

    By: Thales S. Teixeira and Horst Stipp
    Humor and other entertaining content, as opposed to demonstrations of product features and "selling," are increasingly used in advertising, such as TV commercials, to attract and keep consumers' attention. This study uses facial tracking to explore how marketers can... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Content; Entertainment; Face Perception; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Teixeira, Thales S., and Horst Stipp. "Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?" Journal of Advertising Research 53, no. 3 (September 2013): 286–296.
    • December 2008 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    Cola Wars: Going Global

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    This case is meant to be used in conjunction with the extant "Cola Wars" case studies. It outlines the global positions of Pepsi and Coca-Cola as of 2008 in the soft drink market, and then provides an overview of their competitive situations in three markets: Mexico,... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Food and Beverage Industry; China; India; Mexico
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    Cespedes, Frank V. "Cola Wars: Going Global." Harvard Business School Case 709-451, December 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
    • February 2005
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    Bayside Motion Group (A)

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Bradley R. Staats
    After purchasing a business and successfully growing it for 18 years, the sole owner is presented with an attractive acquisition offer from a Fortune 500 company. The company's future is bright, but is now the right time to sell? Can he create more value by waiting?... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management; Success; Private Ownership
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    Bowen, H. Kent, and Bradley R. Staats. "Bayside Motion Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 605-040, February 2005.
    • October 2003 (Revised October 2004)
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    AT&T Canada (A)

    By: Andre F. Perold and Kwame C. Van Leeuwen
    AT&T Canada (ATTC) is a merger arbitrage situation where AT&T Corp. has a contractual commitment to purchase the shares of ATTC at an escalating formula price. However, ATTC's business is performing poorly, and its bonds are trading at significant discounts to par.... View Details
    Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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    Perold, Andre F., and Kwame C. Van Leeuwen. "AT&T Canada (A)." Harvard Business School Case 204-087, October 2003. (Revised October 2004.)
    • 19 Nov 2021
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    Companies Love to Buy Back Their Stock. A Tax Could Deter Them.

    • September 2017 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    Dinesh Moorjani and Hatch Labs

    By: Christopher Stanton, Shikhar Ghosh, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
    This case is about Tinder. It discusses different business models and ways of structuring the initial team. With a $6 million investment from IAC/Interactive in 2010, Dinesh Moorjani founded Hatch Labs to build mobile apps. His mission was to attract entrepreneurial... View Details
    Keywords: Returns; Incubator; Mobile App; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Talent and Talent Management; Valuation; Equity; Finance; United States; North America
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    Stanton, Christopher, Shikhar Ghosh, Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Dinesh Moorjani and Hatch Labs." Harvard Business School Case 818-026, September 2017. (Revised January 2025.)
    • February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    Dinr: My First Start-up (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Kristina Maslauskaite
    In May 2012, a young employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient delivery... View Details
    Keywords: Exit Strategy; Startup; Start-up; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Food
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    Ghosh, Shikhar, and Kristina Maslauskaite. "Dinr: My First Start-up (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-080, February 2016. (Revised May 2016.)
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    How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 4 (April 2015): 90–97. (Reprinted in Launch a Start-Up That Lasts, Harvard Business Review OnPoint, Winter 2016.)
    • January 2011 (Revised February 2011)
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    GLOBIS

    By: Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
    Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS University was already offering successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Adaptation; Expansion; Education Industry; Japan
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    Khaire, Mukti, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo Sato. "GLOBIS." Harvard Business School Case 811-061, January 2011. (Revised February 2011.)
    • August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
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    Nantero

    By: William A. Sahlman, Dan Heath and Caroline Perkins
    This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have competing visions for the company, and its business model. Some... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment; Product Development; Production; Technology; Semiconductor Industry
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    Sahlman, William A., Dan Heath, and Caroline Perkins. "Nantero." Harvard Business School Case 809-031, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)
    • March 2007 (Revised December 2008)
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    Green Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete?

    In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management organization with 10 high-performing high schools around Los Angeles, is faced with a crucial choice... View Details
    Keywords: Secondary Education; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Cooperation; Los Angeles
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    Childress, Stacey M., and Christopher C. Kim. "Green Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete?" Harvard Business School Case 307-086, March 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
    • August 2000
    • Case

    Beansprout Networks

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Rasheea Williams
    Beansprout Networks is a 3-year-old Internet company designed to foster effective communication between parents and the pediatricians and child-care providers who care for their children. With a significant headstart in the marketplace, it has attracted considerable... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Amabile, Teresa M., and Rasheea Williams. "Beansprout Networks." Harvard Business School Case 801-079, August 2000.
    • 16 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
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