Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (98) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 3 of 98 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
Related
  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
Related
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

response of the U.S. government to the excessive compensation of executives following the market collapse of 2008. In particular, the case focuses on the special committee that was formed to oversee and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

accruals. We find that the association between high-powered incentives and earnings manipulation varies by both type of incentive pay and position. Our findings have important policy implications and suggest that compensation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

for compensation committees at public companies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109036 Hearts on Fire—Brand Development Manager Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

on a standard set of demand-side product features. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and The Barbados Group Abstract "The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

where they stand relative to their coworkers. Does telling an employee that her job performance falls in the bottom of her group better her performance? CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them While compensation View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

sometimes gives others the impression that most things work out for me. As a result, they are more likely to attribute their own failures to themselves, rather than the fact that the world is stochastic, applications are crapshoots, and selection View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

along" seem crude and outdated workplace mantras when contrasted with the sophistication of modern business, yet they are still considered sound advice. Compensating Candor HBS professor Max Bazerman of the Negotiation, Organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

through the compensation committee of the board. The board should also give the CEO their impressions of the qualifications and contributions of members of the CEO's management team. The board does not... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

problem-solving process. When the two parties involved are buying and selling committees representing different organizational jurisdictions within their organizations, and perhaps different levels of management, the necessity for... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

more than workers in competing organizations? Would theft decrease? Before doing her research, Sandino hypothesized that higher compensation would discourage stealing for several reasons. First, employees receiving higher pay would feel... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

many risks, unknowns like they are in trouble financially, they are behind in product development, etc. particularly when there is no compensation other than employment for the present and nothing once the employment ends.” An argument... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

A board's most important function is approval and oversight of strategy and of major strategic decisions, such as acquisitions and large capital expenditures. Boards are responsible for selecting (or replacing) the CEO, counseling and supporting the CEO, View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Business School and a principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy firm. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. David A. Lax, a former faculty member at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

different people, and a self-image that is quite different from the same group sprinkled throughout the field organization. Formal management processes such as planning and budgeting approaches, compensation schemes, training programs,... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

compensation committee of a major corporation knows that the coming "proposals" for the preservation of option grants at the top (supported by compensation consultant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web