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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship funds and annual gifts to the HBS Fund. The average one-year scholarship, typically called a fellowship at HBS, is $43,000, and nearly half of all MBA students benefit from these outright scholarships or grants. Students pay... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that ensured their executives would receive above-average pay even though all executives can't be above average. The market for executives is not... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
increasing executive remuneration. “It seemed the payouts at the top were massive and they weren’t warranted,” he says. “Meanwhile, 95 percent of the workforce was getting an annual salary increase of inflation plus one percent.” When he... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
days later, the reality of paying for that education hit.” Raised in a family with modest income, Guth attended public schools and was in the first generation of her family to attend college. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the City... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
she shudders. Through another Brazilian immigrant, she had obtained housecleaning work shortly after settling in. She worked constantly, trudging home most nights after dark, too late—and often too tired—to spend meaningful time with her son. The work was arduous, the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
their success in a new environment? Associate Professor Boris Groysberg, with Lex Sant (MBA ’03) and HBS research associate Robin Abrahams, ask this question of professional football teams, and the results offer valuable lessons for star performers and hiring View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Colgate's North American business and in 1997 was promoted to her current post as executive vice president for CP's North American and European business. She played a big role in Colgate's emergence last year as America's toothpaste... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- Web
Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
about the use digital methodologies including video in the classroom. An important component of the event was learning from past interviews to prepare for a new set of CEM interviews planned in the region over the following twelve months, which will View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) At the end of most days, Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) feels like he hasn’t done enough. As executive director of East Boston Social Centers (EBSC), a century-old grassroots... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
grind of nursing after you return to work,” and “You are not your husband’s mother!” Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay by Robin A. Ferracone (MBA ’80) (Jossey-Bass) Using her... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
should have insured and enforced fairness and honest reporting." Many questions were raised about the level and form of compensation afforded U.S. business leaders today. Allen Roberts comments, "In sustainable, successful organizations, levels of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
executives to do in light of the perception by many in the public that the money was being paid out of funds provided by a Government bail-out. DeSantis' action sparked a debate regarding pay for performance... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
and believe that it makes a difference, engagement drops off dramatically. When engagement falls, so does productivity. Message Not Being Heard Many senior executives have been focused on building mission-driven organizations for the last... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
Your Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Fellowship, students are required to submit with their application a signed letter from a senior executive of the host organization addressed to the prospective Fellow and setting forth the actual job offer and the specifics of the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in supply chain management, service operations, and the investor's perspective on operations to MBA students and executive education participants. Fisher, the UPS Professor of Operations... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
rapidly disappearing, and those who like lording it over others or feeling immune from the rules can no longer get away with it. Status no longer confers a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
Investments in information technology (IT) are finally beginning to pay off, thanks to the era of the networked computer. So says HBS assistant professor Andrew P. McAfee in an article published in last October's issue of Exec: The... View Details
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
For the last seven years, Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) appeared to be well on his way along the professional path he’d set out for himself: He had risen to the level of vice president of a Fortune 150 company, the youngest member of the global View Details