Publications

Article

Retrospective: Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Men and Women of the Corporation and The Change Masters," and "Changing Organizational Structures: An Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Information; Employees; Business Ventures; Organizational Change and Adaptation

December 2000
Case

Stock Options at Virtua.Net

By: Brian J. Hall, Noam T. Wasserman and Carleen Madigan

Describes issues facing three young founders of a high-tech start-up in Silicon Valley, including hiring an experienced CEO and negotiating with a potential VC investor. Focuses on the incentive and compensation aspects of negotiating with job candidates (e.g., what... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Stock Options; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Negotiation

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01 Dec 2007
News

Rediscovering America

for more companies to practice “values-based capitalism.” Could you cite any examples? There is a growing number of well-run, profitable companies that have values at the center of their management strategy. One outstanding example is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

January 2023
Teaching Note

Duolingo: Teaching Languages to the Masses

By: Youngme Moon

Teaching Note for HBS Case 323-016. At the time the case is written, Duolingo is the most popular language learning service in the world. The company has more than 40 million monthly active users, and the company’s total annual revenue has reached $250 million a year.... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Acquisition; Retention; Innovation and Invention

Article

Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

The article focuses on career development and job change. The challenges, transaction costs, and risks associated with job moves are discussed. The authors' research with executives is noted. The mistakes in career development that job hunters make are not doing enough... View Details

Keywords: Change; Resignation and Termination; Job Search; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Strategic Planning

Web

Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library

the 2000s. The collection features correspondence and memos, patents, human resource records, marketing materials, research and development documentation, test photographs, audiovisual materials, and annual... View Details

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

consequences their practices have. To help managers become more effective, we suggest that researchers should investigate the challenge that managers face: how organizations can balance their economic... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

March 25, 2022
Article

Leading an Exhausted Workforce

By: Robin Abrahams and Boris Groysberg

Everyone is exhausted. People are coping with collective grief and trauma on a global scale, which means leaders have to learn and exercise new skills. The authors share steps you can take to foster healthy coping mechanisms and discourage unhealthy ones; help ward off... View Details

Keywords: Burnout; Workplace; Exhaustion; Emotions; Employees; Well-being

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March 2022
Module Note

A Behavioral Science Perspective on Motivation and Incentives

By: John Beshears and Ashley Whillans

This module note for instructors describes a module that integrates insights from the behavioral science of motivation into the economic analysis of incentive systems. View Details

Keywords: Motivation; Incentives; Behavioral Science; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Economics; Analysis; Human Resources

Article

The Price of a CEO's Rolodex

By: Christopher Parsons, J. Engelberg and P. Gao

CEOs with large networks earn more than those with small networks. An additional connection to an executive or director outside the firm increases compensation by about $17,000 on average, more so for "important" members, such as CEOs of big firms. Pay-for-connectivity... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Executive Compensation

2006
Chapter

Products, Customers, and Front-Line Employees

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Product; Customers; Employees; Interpersonal Communication

November 2002
Article

Expensing Employee Stock Options: The Battle Is Over

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Employees; Stock Options

Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Industries like waste management can be seen as mundane, but are often at the forefront of the innovation required to reimagine how we use and renew the resources around us." Travis Nels MBA 2013 |... View Details

March 2009
Article

The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

By: F. Ferri and Tatiana Sandino

We examine the economic consequences of more than 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004, the first case in which the SEC allowed a shareholder vote on an accounting matter. Our results... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Stock Option Expensing; Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism

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26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations on their own, the entire corporate R&D budget would now be dedicated to producing breakthroughs. Bradley knew that attempting to manage these projects under the constraints of the old organization would not work.... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

July 2023
Case

Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Growth Management; Management Succession; Retirement; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry

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