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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
skill and effort, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
ObenchainHarvard Business School Case 310-055 Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options including whether his company could avoid a forced marriage and what steps Goldman Sachs should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry Course Number 1564 Senior Lecturer Michael S. Kaufman Executive Fellow Andy Pforzheimer Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Note: Andy Pforzheimer (Harvard College ’84) is the co-founder... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
request, the traditional Class Day address format. The blunt, veteran CEO with the Massachusetts accent and his unabashed, youthful interlocutor - a Cambridge University graduate possessing formidable verbal agility and a rapier wit - put... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), which supports its seventeen hundred members with a range of financial and business-related services for physicians in group and individual practice. The MGPO's mission is... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
was targeted by a proposal. With respect to the effect on compensation practices, we find that (i) targeted firms where the proposal was approved experienced a decrease in the level of CEO View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
Boston into lockdown, existing clients cancelled and new clients stopped calling; Sandra’s and Vida Verde’s work came to a standstill. Together, they decided to use some of the cooperative’s funds to compensate each of the workers for... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
(1776). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55548 Harvard Business School Case 719-456 OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A) In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business practices:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
often buttress the existing social contract. When the wrong minds meet. Sometimes problems arise not because of cultural differences but instead because the right people are not involved in negotiations. For example, when two CEOs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 "Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: An Application to CEO Oral Communication By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at the core of the new corporate strategy, alongside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
governance and compensation issues 75 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively. Vanguard has also met with some 1,000 executives from companies it invests in. In 2015, CEO Bill McNabb signaled his... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s, including a stint as founding View Details
- 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
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
workplace, panelists agreed, people of color must learn to overcome it. Benaree Pratt Wiley (HBS MBA ’72), president and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit that attempts to increase the number of minorities in... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine