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  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

cannot surface: Abjuring rigorous debate about its merits, a youthful president John F. Kennedy essentially rubber-stamped a 1961 plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, resulting in one of the biggest U.S. foreign policy fiascoes in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512003-PDF-ENG Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd.: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Shelley Xin Li, and Alan KnightHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

centers into more nimble operations that can sustain its renewed brands far into the 21st Century. Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor Of Business Administration: General Motors was formed in 1908, the same year Henry Ford brought... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

Foods was having was caused partly by COVID-19, partly by competition for workers from Amazon, and partly by changes in lifestyle,” says David Bell, Baker Foundation Professor and George M. Moffett Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Scott. The book looks at the changing image of the salesman, represented by the likes of George Babbitt and Willy Loman. In the end, says Friedman, salesmen not only fed America's thirst for consumerism, they also shaped it. Laura Linard:... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

employers and employees as ones of material benefits.” After all, it’s not all about making money, says DeLong, a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at HBS. What employees really crave, the paper argues, is meaning. “You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

Last year, it took a teenager's 10-minute video of a Black man's murder to shine a light on the raw hostility that Black people face daily in America. George Floyd's death at the hands of a white police officer forced many to acknowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

would always remind his visitors that good source material was the key to good history and would want to know what research collection they were using at Baker Library. His enthusiasm for the subject of business history, and for history... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2000
  • Article

The Use of Performance Measures in Incentive Contracting

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 1991
  • Other Unpublished Work

Incentives and Interdependence in Work Groups

By: George P. Baker
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  • 2000
  • Chapter

Leveraged Management Buyouts at KKR: Historical Perspectives on Patient Equity, Debt, Discipline, and LBO Governance.

By: George P. Baker and George Smith
Keywords: Governance; History; Leveraged Buyouts; Executive Compensation; Borrowing and Debt
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  • May 1989
  • Teaching Note

Charles River Co., Teaching Note

By: George P. Baker III
Keywords: Teaching; Information
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  • March 1990
  • Teaching Note

Four Star Management TN

By: George P. Baker III
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  • August 1989
  • Case

McMullen and Worby (A) (Abridged)

By: George P. Baker III
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  • September 1987
  • Comment

Discussion of 'An Analysis of the Use of Accounting and Market Measures of Performance in Executive Compensation Contracts'

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Contracts; Markets; Executive Compensation; Accounting; Performance
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  • 2009
  • Comment

The Behavioral Economics of the Labor Market:Central Findings and Their Policy Implications by Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Goette, and Christian Zehnder

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Economics; Behavior; Labor; Policy; Government and Politics
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  • Article

Beatrice: A Study in the Creation and Destruction of Value

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Value
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  • 1994
  • Other Paper

Conglomerates and LBO Associations: A Comparison of Organizational Forms

By: George P. Baker and Cynthia Montgomery
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  • 2000
  • Working Paper

Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in US Trucking

By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard
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  • 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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