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  • 06 Aug 2020
  • News

Defining Flex Work

companies that offer it, but almost immediately Auerbach recognized two fundamental problems. First, no one knew how to talk about flexibility. Second, no one had the data to understand the business benefits of it. The New York City–based... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2025
  • News

Mapping Pain Points at the IRS

than any other—the Internal Revenue Service. As Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer, Tamaki is modernizing the historic agency’s processes and technology to benefit both IRS employees and taxpayers. Excerpts... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; IRS; customer service; government service; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period starting in 2008, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6792.html Published: October 31, 2011 When evaluating compensation issues, economists often assume that both an employer and an employee make rational, albeit self-interested choices while working toward a goal.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

their post-pandemic working norms, many leaders will weigh the pros and cons of letting employees keep the schedule freedom that comes with virtual work. But, reducing structure comes with its own risks, so companies will likely want a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 19 Sep 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the best career decision you ever... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have... View Details
Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

project." Giving enough time—but not too much—to complete a project. Amabile explains that deadlines are important, but only if employees understand how the deadline benefits the mission. An occasional... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

paternal leave, and professional development. Such efforts have the potential to improve employee engagement, loyalty, and productivity. Kost: While your essay cites many business benefits of advancing a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • December 2000
  • Case

Stock Options at Virtua.Net

By: Brian J. Hall, Noam T. Wasserman and Carleen Madigan
Describes issues facing three young founders of a high-tech start-up in Silicon Valley, including hiring an experienced CEO and negotiating with a potential VC investor. Focuses on the incentive and compensation aspects of negotiating with job candidates (e.g., what... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Stock Options; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Negotiation
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Hall, Brian J., Noam T. Wasserman, and Carleen Madigan. "Stock Options at Virtua.Net." Harvard Business School Case 801-324, December 2000.
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this painful point? In response to... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

that contribute to a type of corporate practice—those oriented toward social benefits outside the firm. We define corporate social action as those firm behaviors and practices that extend beyond immediate profit maximization goals and are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2002 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Crucial Conversations

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayraghavan
Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the firm, and McKenna finds out that this isn't true. He approaches his boss to find out why he was lied to. View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Investment Banking; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Rank and Position; Banking Industry
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DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayraghavan. "Crucial Conversations." Harvard Business School Case 403-027, July 2002. (Revised November 2002.)
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Case Study: A Good Fit

billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the sales cycles can last up to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Renter’s Market

street. He looks for positive signs such as strong rental demand from city employees and blue-collar workers; a mix of rental and owner-occupied properties; successful local businesses; city revitalization projects; and informal... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate
  • October 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie Gomez
On September 2003, Richard Grasso stepped down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's payout, Ken Langone... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Change Management; Energy Industry; New York (city, NY)
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Srinivasan, Suraj, and Lizzie Gomez. "Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee." Harvard Business School Case 111-060, October 2010. (Revised October 2011.)
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Wheels Up

Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge

through career growth, says a case study by Katherine Coffman . For decades, the annual performance review has induced both hope and dread from employees and managers alike—yet some business leaders are questioning whether this... View Details
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

an accounting journal entry. But we have to question the effectiveness of the current rule, which essentially makes the benefits from a deliberate accounting distortion proportional to companies' use of one particular form of View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
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