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  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

compensation structure, and corporate governance approach, leading up to August 2008. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709449 The Cleveland Clinic: Growth Strategy 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608038 Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies Harvard Business School Case 808-088 Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

and respect for practice by faculty, increase the quality and impact of faculty research. With roles and boundaries clear, such ongoing relationships with firms, particularly those rooted in executive education venues, increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

change the course of history. Indispensable will also help you understand this new model so you can use it in your own life-whether you're a citizen casting a ballot, an executive choosing your next CEO, or a leader trying to make your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

e.g., to buy out minority shareholders; for gift and estate tax purposes; to tie executive compensation to firm performance; to raise outside capital; or to sell the company outright. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

focal social categories, also had greater difficulty maximizing profit across social category lines. Finally, Study 4 showed that the transaction utility of maximizing joint gains required additional compensation across social category... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation consultants suggest that a primary objective of rTSR is to filter shocks unrelated to managerial performance, following the informativeness principle, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

Manage Urban School Districts," for example, a best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article written by PELP faculty, has sold 6,000 copies and was made available free of charge to educators in 2012. PELP researchers have written 62 cases and notes on topics such... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina Abstract—Based on two samples of high quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

this is not the bad thing that happened to Qantas flight 32-- the bad thing that happened to Qantas flight 32. Because an Airbus A380, it's so sophisticated, that the plane can actually sustain an injury like this and continue flying for 14 hours. The on-board... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

Recruiting Andrew Yard (A) Brian J. Hall, Nicole S. Bennett, and Sara del NidoHarvard Business School Case 911-028 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

central planner who can structure work and then expect individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper considers the operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

We plan on bringing them all back as soon as we are allowed to reopen, but for now they have no income from the company. Many in our industry laid off their employees, we did not.” “How to keep executives motivated who were asked to take... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

the company’s policy for awarding sales incentive compensation on HMM, as well as how they communicated with employees and the firm’s sole shareholder, the Harvard Business School. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

is economically important, is associated with lower ROA, and can be explained by compensation consultants' tendencies and firms' governance weaknesses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Lifting... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman