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  • September 2023
  • Article

Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; Executive Compensation; Ownership
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  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

choose to spend time with—work colleagues or family—based on how their pay is structured, in particular whether they get bonuses for a job well done or earn fixed salaries regardless of performance. In fact, employees who received... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • March 2007
  • Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf
I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50591 Do Incentive Plans for Exemplary Employees Lead to Productive or Counterproductive Outcomes? By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using data from a retail chain, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2011
  • Article

Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Retention; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions; Wages; United States
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  • November 2000 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Activity-Based Management at W.S. Industries (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
W.S. Industries undertakes the design and implementation of an activity based costing (ABC) system, and the ABC information empowers workers to make process improvement decisions. Workers' incentive pay is tied to cost savings from process improvements. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Energy Industry; India
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
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  • 09 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

from $1 million in the first year to $2 million in the third. A 70% drop in the stock price, by contrast, would reduce the value of his grant to just $300,000. Since fixed number plans do not insulate future pay from stock price changes,... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
  • 30 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

organizational affiliations, and social standing. Directors must be given strong incentives to focus on shareholder interests. Compensation arrangements for sports stars lack the features of executive pay... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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    Brian J. Hall

    Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    because the payout incentives are tied to leading only your company’s sector. “It’s paying for real performance, which is the thing the shareholders want,” Hall says. Do: Remember that cash isn’t always king... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 14 May 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantity vs. Quality and Exclusion by Two-Sided Platforms

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Web Services
    • Research Summary

    Executive Compensation

    By: Tatiana Sandino

    Professor Sandino’s other stream of research examines players that influence the design of an executive’s compensation. She has examined the role shareholder activists can play in influencing CEO pay and found that a compensation-related shareholder proposal could... View Details

    • 20 Oct 2011
    • News

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    • 30 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

    says. But as one developer told Roche, adding cash to the mix can sour the task at hand. “He said, ‘As soon as your sponsor pays for it, even if it's just five bucks, they're holding you accountable to fix their problems.’ And he thought... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
    • 29 Aug 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

    Keywords: by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    • 09 Sep 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • 09 Apr 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

    carefully, can open a box full of unintended consequences that ultimately harm rather than help the organization. The financial crisis of 2008 was partially fueled by origination bonuses paid to bank loan officers who were incented to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2017
    • Article

    Rethinking Sales Compensation

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Compensation is probably the most discussed aspect of sales and the single biggest portion of the more than $900 billion that U.S. companies alone spend annually on sales efforts. But research indicates that less than 10% of companies believe that their sales incentive... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives
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