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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation choices. With respect to accounting choices, we find that: (i) targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
entrepreneur-in-residence Henry McCance (MBA '66) focus on events surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her "baby" to a new CEO. "In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To understand better how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring before they are hit with a financial crisis. When is a preemptive restructuring appropriate? A: If a company waits too long to address problems with its business, the resulting restructuring may be very painful. This may deter View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
suggest that valuing time over money facilitates social connection. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54685 How Does Product Liability Risk Affect Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants By: Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
particularly large gender disparity was reported between male and female executives. For example, in 1999, only 5 percent of women executives were then earning $80,000 or more, but 23 percent of male View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative total shareholder return (rTSR) is increasingly used to incentivize and evaluate managers. Although View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
granted a Fellowship award and your employment start date, you decide to close your venture. You are required to inform HBS if, within 12 months of your employment start date, either of the following occur: Your total guaranteed annual View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
The CEO of the Corporate Solutions Group at Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (JLL) is executing an organizational redesign to respond to its strategy goal of becoming more customer-centric. This case examines the dramatic corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
self-insured increased competition and choice. This union could be created by using a presidential executive order to designate the Public Option as a “qualified health plan” for purposes of Internal Revenue Code section 36B(c)(3)(A). It... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce, and F. Gino Abstract Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-063 Controversy over Executive Remuneration at BP In March 2016, BP disclosed that its chief executive officer, Bob... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
the merit system was based on peer comparisons at the salaried level. There were no executive bonuses. Stock options were awarded as recognition. But there was also a lot of pressure in the company, said Beer. Managers of thirteen units... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
at the issue of executive compensation and the idea that excessive compensation is a sign of poor governance. It also discusses the union's 'Say on Pay' proposals that sought... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
settings right, you can design a job in which a talented individual can successfully execute your company's strategy. But if you get the settings wrong, it will be difficult for any employee to be effective. I'll look at each span in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
wide range of issues—from corporate governance and executive pay, to strategic direction and excessive corporate overhead. Yet one of the most common concerned the scope of the corporation. In many cases, activists demanded the splitting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne