Compensation Committees - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Applegate Baker Foundation Professor, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Capital Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988) , Senior Advisor, OCGI Climate Investments Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992) , Member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance Dan Stephens Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company... View Details

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

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

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

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research for “Beyond the Target Customer: Social Effects in CRM campaigns” (June 2017) with Peter Ebbes, Oded Netzer and Matthew Danielson. Sunil Gupta : Invited by the Economic Sciences Prize Committee to nominate a person for the Nobel... View Details

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

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

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

"Decoding Inside Information" (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16454, October 2010). Lauren H. Cohen : Presented testimony on the “Impacts of Government Spending” to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House... View Details

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

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require firms to get shareholder approval... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC firms have an interesting organizational structure compared with other... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

together or understand when something might be going wrong. Jay Lorsch: There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for their part, allowed it to go unchecked. Some audit committees and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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