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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
  • June 2017
  • Article

The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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  • October 2021 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged had contributed to the nationwide... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Drug; Investors; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Executive Compensation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Legal Liability; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

corporate objectives to your employees ." The perverse effects of pay for performance were also targeted. Sylvia Lee pointed out that "we want knowledge sharing but reward knowledge hoarding." In commenting on View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Research Summary

Board Independence and the Design of Executive Compensation

In this project, I analyze the compensation decisions of boards of directors. Compensation decisions not only serve to motivate executives, but also affect a board's reputation for independence. Although greater managerial influence over the board has the obvious... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen
  • 1998
  • Chapter

A Better Way to Pay CEOs?

By: Brian J. Hall
Keywords: Executive Compensation
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  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

classroom visit on the day the case was taught this year, the chief executive emphasized the obligation he feels to give back to QuikTrip's employees, as well as his commitment to avoiding operational or strategic changes that would... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • News

Moonves' $69M Pay Shows How Boards Manipulate Data

  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

paying foreign officials to facilitate business contracts was less objectionable and immoral compared to the participants who were exposed to the "reward good service" scenario. Blurring The Lines Extending the research results... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2007
  • Other Unpublished Work

Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK

By: Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber
In this study, we examine the effect on CEO pay of new legislation introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) at the end of 2002 that requires publicly-traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a non-binding shareholder vote ("say on pay") at the annual... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Performance Improvement; Business and Shareholder Relations; United Kingdom
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  • 14 Oct 2015
  • News

When People Pay Attention to Video Ads and Why

  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details
  • Fall 2021
  • Article

Job-Hopping Toward Equity: Changing Employers Can Help Narrow the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
Changing employers has been linked to larger pay increases for executives and managers. Although survey-based studies suggest that men gain more than women, an analysis of more than 2,000 job moves found that executive women are commanding bigger increases than men... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Gender; Equality and Inequality
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

Even so, the executives brought the issue to Harvard Business School Professor Robin J. Ely. Eighteen months and more than 100 employee interviews later, Ely’s research team reached a conclusion that challenged steadfast beliefs about the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard Business Press), offer an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace