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    Executive Pay and "Independent" Compensation Consultants

    Executive compensation consultants face potential conflicts of interest that can lead to higher recommended levels of CEO pay, including the desires to “cross-sell” services and to secure “repeat business.” We find evidence in both the US and Canada that CEO pay... View Details
    • October 2003 (Revised November 2004)
    • Case

    Joe Bachelder: Executive Pay Negotiator

    By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
    Joe Bachelder was the leading executive pay negotiator in the United States, securing generous contracts for CEOs and executives at Fortune 500 companies. The CEO of Victor Sports Co. resigned, and the board offered the job to Charles Suarez, a star executive from a... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Executive Compensation; Retail Industry; Sports Industry
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    • 17 Jun 2014
    • News

    From The Gray Suit To The Superman Cape: How And Why CEO Pay Skyrocketed

    • 29 Sep 2008
    • News

    CEO pay is a real problem, but this isn't the time to fix it

    • 06 Aug 2015
    • News

    When Workers Know Exactly How Much More Money CEOs Make, Will Anything Change?

    • 11 Aug 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

    Keywords: by Ethan Rouen
    • 14 Nov 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Growing CEOs from the Inside

    There is no more important decision a board can make than naming a CEO. Yet most companies pay scant attention to the issue of succession other than a few whispered names in the hallways. The result? The hiring of an outsider who quickly... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment
    • 13 Sep 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

    long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
    • 07 Sep 2010
    • News

    As Pay Falls, Borrowers Lose Ground

    • 24 May 2018
    • News

    American firms reveal the gulf between bosses’ and workers’ pay

    • 03 Jun 2021
    • News

    CEOs Are the Problem

    • 14 Nov 2012
    • News

    Can Huge CEO Golden Parachutes Hurt You?

    • 1998
    • Working Paper

    CEO Incentives and Firm Size

    By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
    What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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    • 08 Oct 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

    further thought: "Does increasing transparency and visibility of the ratios help increase the ability for shareholders and boards to make better choices?" He commented, "One of the best agents to advocate for the right... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
    • Supplement

    Henkel's CEO Kasper Rorsted: On Building a Winning Culture

    By: Robert L. Simons
    Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Work/life Balance; Strategy Execution; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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    • 15 Jan 2013
    • News

    In Defense of the CEO

    • 30 Aug 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Consumers Punish Firms that Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

    Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton
    • 18 Nov 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

    ask? And more specifically, what are the sources of influence on the decisions that they make?” At large public companies, boards of directors are usually in charge of how and what to pay their CEOs. It’s an expensive decision. Among the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
    • 01 Jun 2006
    • News

    CEO Compensation Troubles

    long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major... View Details
    Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • January 2023
    • Teaching Note

    The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
    Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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