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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage, generating capital, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital media, restaurants, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
among NFL coaches now support this idea. We examined this link between tenure and job performance among business managers, finding that some are able to maintain job performance by adapting and staying... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. CEO succession is a process taking many years, not an event that takes place shortly before a transition. It reflects the way a company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
management's actions with the long-term interests of an organization and its investors is, of course, to delay payment of options until long-term performance has been proven. Charlie Cullinane suggests, for example, that an organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
mastered English and advanced to the top of his class. His outstanding academic performance earned him a scholarship to Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford Union, the world’s most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
With a 98 percent graduation rate and test scores that lead the district, ACS ranks in the top 5 percent of schools in Queens. In all our endeavors, excellence is the standard, not the goal. We believe that View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly destroyed the company. Lavish pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
as one of the top women dealmakers in the financial-services arena. Two sessions of morning panels addressed issues related to specific industries. During the first session, attendees could choose among panels that examined the fields of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
inversion of Before the 1950s, the majority of graduates who became teachers were in the top quartile of their college classes. And today, we're seeing that the majority are in the bottom half and sometimes even in the bottom quartile of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
cannot be a credible champion for world trade. “Xi Jinping’s words are more of a PR stunt,” he wrote. Wildebeest added, “[A]ttempting to do meaningful work in China is basically a hassle from day one, top to bottom. Large companies often... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
How can aspiring leaders raise their voices when they see dysfunctional behavior at the top but fear losing the opportunity to have a shot at the top job? To what extent are the kinds of View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
And wise leaders use apprenticeship and mentoring to cultivate practical wisdom in others. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/05/the-big-idea-the-wise-leader/ar/1 Extreme Productivity Authors:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
promotion. It’s going to affect my performance evaluation. They fear they’ll be viewed as less committed, that they’re going to be suspect. The biggest two effects of having caregiving responsibilities that are hard to reconcile with your... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
the performance of mechanisms intended for human use. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-064.pdf PublicationsBusiness Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Authors:Paul M. Healy and Krishna G.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace