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- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
http://hbr.org/search/914405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-067 Rodan + Fields Dermatologists The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is frustrated with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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contact info but goes beyond C Suite) HBS alumni screening variable? Yes No No Yes Research/reports Emerging Industries reports, Morningstar reports Private Capital Compensation Report; other reports on private capital markets Yes, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
authors. "They use motivation [merely] as the rhetoric to justify their actions." Moreover, the authors found that only two variables in their survey were associated with corporate financial performance: the presence of a strong... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
different capabilities, make varying degrees of effort, and have different personal preferences. Should companies accommodate variability or reduce it? Accommodation often involves asking employees to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
traditional endogenous growth theory and to new theoretical approaches that focus on variability in innovation outcomes within the firm size distribution. Using new data on 11,514 U.S. R&D firms active during the interwar and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Abstract This paper decomposes the excess return predictability in inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds into effects from liquidity, market segmentation, real interest rate risk, and inflation risk. We estimate a large and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
to increase significantly, with income from fees and other direct compensations growing from 23 percent in 1987 to 65 percent by 2007. What happened? The paper presents an economic model of an agency's decision to unbundle its services... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to prepare their bids. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
and the winners have not always compensated the losers. That has generated a backlash against those who are perceived to be cheerleaders for globalization. A mistrust—or paranoia—of the elites has emerged. How has populism played out in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited self-reports or third-party attestation become more attractive as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or "turns." "Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show," Klug says. "When the meal was over, the chef... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument for the intermediary, thereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
ventures aimed to grow the company from its core HMO business into the consumer health organization market, Phanstiel threw out a system in which managers' variable compensation was largely based on overall... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
309-073 Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309073... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
are quite different. You have to align their incentives, which means heavily weight the compensation of the management team to stock options, so that what makes them rich makes the shareholders rich. AG: The unstated supposition is that... View Details