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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
- March 2000
- Case
Dell Computer Corporation: Share Repurchase Program
By: George C. Chacko and Luis M. Viceira
Dell Computer Corp. announced a share repurchase program shortly after a significant stock price drop. In this announcement, the company also states that it will use options contracts. This case looks at the options transactions and how they relate to Dell's employee... View Details
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?
Executive stock options create incentives for executives to manage firms in ways that maximize firm market value. Since options increase in value with the volatility of the underlying stock, executive stock options provide managers with incentives to take actions that... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
The Cross Country Group: A Piece of the Rock (A) and (B)
By: Robert Simons and Indra A. Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-199-044) and (9-100-044). View Details
- December 1999 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Prime Designs
By: Paul W. Marshall
A student takes the role of the father who is the CEO of a family business. A non-family manager has asked for a meeting. Agenda topics are: your son's latest proposal and managers' desire to own equity. View Details
- November 1999
- Case
Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma: Negotiating the Job Search
MBA student Doyle Williams searches for his ideal job in a private equity group and uses his negotiation skills to try to attain the best possible compensation package. View Details
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19... View Details
- October 1999
- Case
CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (B): 1992-1997
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
From 1992 to 1997, CIBC CEO Al Flood and head of investment banking John Hunkin integrate the struggling investment bank, Wood Gundy, with CIBC's corporate bank. The impact and interaction of organization design, compensation schemes, and communication initiatives are... View Details
- September 1999
- Case
CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (B): 1992-1997 (Condensed)
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
From 1992 to 1997, CIBC CEO Al Flood and head of investment banking John Hunkin integrate the struggling investment bank Wood Gundy with CIBC's corporate bank. The impact and interaction of organization design, compensation schemes, and communication initiatives are... View Details
- September 1999 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Boeing Company's Accounting for Executive Stock Compensation, The
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Executive stock options are experiencing increased use and the Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing changes in accounting in the United States. View Details
- July 1999
- Case
Restructuring General Motors North America (A): Pay-for-Performance
Presents the new pay-for-performance scheme adopted by General Motors (GM) in its 1999 reorganization of its sales and marketing organization. Once in operation, many administrative problems developed requiring a reconsideration of the scheme's basic architecture. View Details
- May 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Marshall Industries
Confounding predictions that the Internet would "disintermediate" commerce, making "middle man" companies all but obsolete, Marshall Industries, a leading electronics distributor, used the Internet and digital technologies to reinvent itself. Marshall continued to sell... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Gerald Weiss
By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
Gerald Weiss left Wall Street for the promise of a CFO position at a well-established corporation. He was given a 10-year options package with a guaranteed floor of $12 million and unlimited upside. To ensure the entire package would be worth at least $12 million after... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Al Dunlap at Sunbeam
By: Brian J. Hall, Rakesh Khurana and Carleen Madigan
Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline. Many of the... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Bain & Company, Inc.: Making Partner
By: Ashish Nanda
In June 1998, Bain's compensation and policy committee meets to review candidates for elevation to partnership. The case presents the profiles of four candidates and ends with the promotion committee debating the merits of the candidates. View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms: An Empirical Analysis
By: S. C. Gilson and M. R. Vetsuypens
- January 1999
- Article
An Analysis of Compensation in the U.S. Venture Capital Partnership
By: Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner