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- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to respond, and View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- News
CEO pay is a real problem, but this isn't the time to fix it
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
price you can. As you walk out of the shop, you can’t shake the feeling that you just got fleeced—forced to pay just slightly more than a local would pay. The fact is, you are probably right. No matter how vigilant you are, it’s hard to... View Details
- January 2017
- Supplement
Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (B)
By: William W. George and Monica Baraldi
On December 1, 2014, Medtronic announced that it had completed a $17 billion bond sale to finance the Covidien acquisition, officially completed on January 26, 2015. Medtronic’s legal headquarters moved to Ireland, while its operational headquarters remained in... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Medtronic; Covidien; Mission; Tax Inversion; Business Strategy; Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Pharmaceutical Industry; Republic of Ireland; Europe; Minnesota; United States
George, William W., and Monica Baraldi. "Medtronic: Making the Big Leap Forward (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 317-074, January 2017.
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- November 2021 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl, Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Once at the center of the American economy, the state of West Virginia had seen decades of decline as its coal industry fell on hard times. With beautiful but challenging topography, a proud but shrinking population, and a new scourge of the opioid epidemic, the... View Details
Keywords: Population Health; Geographic Location; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; West Virginia
Weinzierl, Matthew C., Christine Keung, and Reggie Smith. "West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward." Harvard Business School Case 722-024, November 2021. (Revised May 2022.)
- July–August 2016
- Article
How to Pay for Health Care
By: Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
The United States stands at a crossroads in how to pay for health care. Fee for service, the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently... View Details
Porter, Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan. "How to Pay for Health Care." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2016): 88–100.
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction
instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of... View Details
- Article
Is It Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
By: Boris Groysberg and Abhijit Naik
Groysberg, Boris, and Abhijit Naik. "Is It Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 8, 2016).
- 09 Oct 2013
- News
A New Way to Pay for Long-Term Care
- 12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 28 Apr 2020
- Career Events
New Paths Forward & How to Get There
Is there anything holding you back from taking that next step? Are you at an impasse? This session is designed to help to you honestly assess where you are now in your life. From there, we will craft potential new paths and create action plans to guide your immediate... View Details
- 21 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.
Reconstruing involves broadening the perceived scope of the situation, either by looking back at a longer history, forward at a longer time horizon, or by contextualizing it more broadly. For instance, this... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
produce rigorous, managerially relevant research, and I’d like to see more out there,” he says. “In the case of advertising effectiveness, I thought: What if you take small businesses and give them advertisements for a three-month span, would View Details
- November 2001 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company
By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
This case describes the compensation system for portfolio managers at Harvard's portfolio management company, including its formulaic and bonus bank features. Harvard Management Co. President Jack Meyer explains the philosophy behind the incentive pay at his company. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Investment Portfolio; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry
Hall, Brian J., and Jonathan Lim. "Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company." Harvard Business School Case 902-130, November 2001. (Revised December 2003.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Pay of Finance Professors
By: Claire Célérier, Boris Vallée and Alexey Vasilenko
This paper documents the existence of a significant wage finance premium in academia, and investigates its underlying mechanism. By exploiting an extensive dataset covering wages, publications and socio-demographics for 60,000 public-university faculty from all fields,... View Details
Célérier, Claire, Boris Vallée, and Alexey Vasilenko. "The Pay of Finance Professors." Working Paper, 2024.
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
to light. Women frequently forgot to keep their blade supply restocked in the shower. "The last thing you want to do in the middle of a shower is get out and look for a razor blade," says Avery, who spearheaded the launch of the Venus razor with in-shower blade... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
with the new ones. Organizations are trying so hard to maintain their hybrid work environments and fill offices. They’re trying so hard to get back to the pre-pandemic workplace, but was it so great? No. There was and continues to be a... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
corruption is quite detrimental to economic progress. It really depends on the form of corruption and how markets are organized. Q: What negative impact could paying bribes have on managers, even in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)
In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details