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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Westergren. The company's founder-CEO recently left due to pressures both at home and within the venture. Dozens of investors turned thumbs-down on the venture; salaries had been cut; and, tensions had risen within the founding team. Now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 708-490 The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to the current method of straight View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
an affiliate program manager might be paid a modest salary plus 10 percent of year- over- year growth in the size of the affiliate program. But consider the incentives of someone paid in that way. If there is fraud in the affiliate... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
first—about thirty people—and their salaries could be paid by the rich member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These employees would look for promising sites for the initial projects, seek out local... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
cultivate a paid audience and also tell them, “Hey, on the other side, you’re paying journalists.” And journalists of color are often the ones who are laid off first, who are underpaid, and all of that nonsense. If you really want diverse reporting and storytelling,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
found no takers given injury concerns, their high asking price, and the supply of quality quarterbacks on the market. Given that cutting Newton would free up $19 million in space in salary cap terms and would cost the Panthers only $2... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take a 50% View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take a 50% View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows receive a one-year View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
highest-paid CEOs in 2011 through 2014, Clifford explains how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country’s richest CEOs and argues that those companies could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
rate.) The following month, officers received a recorded notification of their salary deposit, with instructions on how to access it using an interactive voice-recognition system. The police, Khoja says, returned to his office—but this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
going to have to inspire a strong sense of mission and purpose that goes beyond salary and profits." Vaill agrees, adding, "Where is that inspiration going to come from? I contend that executives themselves will need a spiritual program... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
half of employees contribute to both the Roth and another 401(k) account, consistent with a tax diversification motive. Roth usage is decreasing in age, less likely among women, and only weakly correlated with salary and tenure once we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or improving your next View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
billboards on district properties. (Both pass.) Motion by motion, the wheels of government turn as the clock ticks later and later into the evening. A motion for a local swim team to rent the high school pool. A motion itemizing salaries... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
amazing. And, in fact, it could take off and land itself, but people get freaked out about that. So the pilot does that because they've got to earn their salary somehow. And this flight, Qantas flight 32 that takes off on this morning in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
remarks Balaraj. “A worker earning a salary of $100 a month will work seven days a week if that’s what it takes to get the job done. It’s a huge competitive advantage.” MANISH KEJRIWAL: "Development needs to be accomplished in a way that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
was very successful at growing the business and establishing its leadership position. He was compensated with a mix of salary and options, and he did not own any equity in the company. The options were set so that if Talent Partners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne