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- May 2000
- Supplement
Bain & Co., Inc.: Phyllis Yale in Conversation with MBA students
By: Ashish Nanda
Phyllis Yale, chairman of Bain's Compensation and Promotion Committee (CPC), discusses how the CPC decided on four promotion cases. She reflects on the impact of the promotion decision-making process on the firm. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Bain & Co., Inc.: Phyllis Yale in Conversation with MBA students." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 800-503, May 2000.
- 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
Kanter, Rosabeth M. 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. Academy of Management Executive 18, no. 2 (May 2004): 92–111.
- 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
Hall, Brian J., Noam T. Wasserman, and Carleen Madigan. "Stock Options at Virtua.Net." Harvard Business School Case 801-324, December 2000.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 137–140.
- 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
Abrahams, Robin, and Boris Groysberg. "Leading an Exhausted Workforce." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 25, 2022).
- 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
Beshears, John, and Ashley Whillans. "A Behavioral Science Perspective on Motivation and Incentives." Harvard Business School Module Note 922-033, March 2022.
- 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
Parsons, Christopher, J. Engelberg, and P. Gao. "The Price of a CEO's Rolodex." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 1 (January 2013).
- November 2002
- Article
Expensing Employee Stock Options: The Battle Is Over
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "Expensing Employee Stock Options: The Battle Is Over." Accounting Bulletin, no. 112 (November 2002).
- 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
Ferri, F., and Tatiana Sandino. "The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing." Accounting Review 84, no. 2 (March 2009): 433–466.
- 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
- 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
Tadikonda, Satish, Shikhar Ghosh, and William Marks. "Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Harvard Business School Case 824-021, July 2023.
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
are worth pursuing. When most people hear a new idea, it’s human nature to see its flaws, so during the brainstorm processing, no criticism should be allowed. I know of a manager who brings along a squirt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Framing the Future Cindy Song (MBA ’07) is in the business of building. As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity International, Song manages a $34 million loan... View Details