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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
with competitive pay levels, since the annual value of options is not anchored by a connection to annual salary and bonus." Hall therefore advises firms using this method to reset the number of options every four years or so to... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract—Agent-based modeling is a longstanding but underused View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
or a combination—can catalyze leaders' listening skills, reveal what does or doesn't work inside the organization, highlight hidden challenges and opportunities, and generate essential competitive intelligence. It can promote engagement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable and fixed costs is undertaken. Finally, these numbers are used... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer an introduction to the best methods for consuming data. In this excerpt, Davenport and Kim discuss multiple ways to tell a story with data, "the best way to communicate results to nonanalytical... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
gain drawing from a qualitative study of 90 U.S.-based employees of a Japanese organization following a company-wide English language mandate. These native English-speaking employees believed that the mandate elevated their worth in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge companies to provide detailed, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
decide which customers to serve and which to turn away, configuring pricing strategies to align with the value delivery stream customers experience, and determining whether inbound marketing programs can generate enough scale or whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
still only translates to about 17 percent of those eligible. Even the general elections of 2008 and 2012 only saw about half of eligible voters casting a ballot. “Less than half of eligible citizens are voting in a growing number of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
executive at Nickelodeon, the children's TV channel, who successfully managed her career while coping with a high-risk pregnancy. The other was Estée Lauder, founder of the cosmetics empire that bears her name. While the traditional HBS case View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in gaming platforms; analyze... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
for Microsoft. Alas, when it comes to embracing the latest technology, consumer hardware and corporate software are as different as apples and orang well, as different as Apples and corporate software. "Software is the method by... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
presents us with cause and effect, with action and result, and through the characters' stories we can learn about the dangers, or rewards, of acting in certain ways. “Firms should be looking for some kind of reliable method for leaders to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
on those earnings, targeting behavior is muted and no longer generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53905 in press Games and Economic Behavior Games of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental protections. These ventures were View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
exploratory study of learning processes in globally dispersed new product development teams. These qualitative data are used to investigate components of team learning previously highlighted in the team learning literature—namely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Alan Crane (photo: Shelly R. Harrison) As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe... View Details