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  • September 1991 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

WPP Group and Its Acquisitions

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
WPP Group acquired J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, paying high premiums in relation to earnings. In each acquisition the goodwill acquired was immediately charged off against owners' equity. Then, WPP Group established a value for the brand names of the two... View Details
Keywords: Goodwill Accounting; Accounting; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Equity; Private Equity; Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Consumer Products Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

enacting the rule, which it has been mulling for years. In October 2013, the SEC posted a request for comment on the idea of pay ratio disclosure. Subsequently, the agency received more than 126,000 letters,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • Article

Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt and Vishal Vasishth
To shed light on individuals' willingness to pay for "green" goods (i.e., goods that are supposed to have lower adverse environmental impacts either in production or in use), we study data from the introduction by Patagonia, Inc., of organic cotton sportswear in the... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 30 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

Why diverse organizations are attractive The researchers sent follow-up questions to ask why applicants value diversity information. “Many indicate that such information was useful because it signals the quality of the company, highlights... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

the violators? First off, the monetary amounts at stake are often small—tens or hundreds of dollars in licensing fees. Is it worth the time, cost, and effort to send a bunch of settlement request letters? Second, few of these types of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • July 2016
  • Case

'Golden Leash' Pay for Directors at The Dow Chemical Company

By: Ian Gow, Suraj Srinivasan and Neeraj Goyal
In November 2014, The Dow Chemical Company was faced with the prospect of a proxy battle with prominent hedge fund and activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Investment Activism; Chemical Industry
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  • December 2019 (Revised December 2021)
  • Supplement

Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)

By: Christine Exley, John Beshears, Manuela Collis and Davis Heniford
Supplements the (A) case and describes the events following it View Details
Keywords: Equal Pay; Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Corporate Governance; Lawsuits and Litigation; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

obscure—they may sell hard-to-get products at higher prices. “Too much of a thing and it becomes a commodity, too little of a thing and it becomes something that’s not even recognized when you walk down the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 26 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

Debt, Norton and his fellow researchers argue that separating the purchase from the actual payment demotivates consumers from paying more than the minimum. In contrast, repayment-by-purchase “recouples” the elements of the transaction and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • January 2013 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

FX Risk Hedging at EADS

By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal
In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details
Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Aerospace Industry; Europe
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  • December 2022
  • Article

Cost Standard Set Program: Moving Forward to Standardization of Cost Assessment Based on Clinical Condition

By: Anna Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Richard D. Urman, Anne Geubelle, Robert Kaplan and Carisi Anne Polanczyk
This communication announces the International Cost Standard Set Program. Its goal is to establish global standardized frameworks for measuring the costs of treating specific clinical conditions. A scientific committee, including 16 international healthcare cost... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Value-based Health Care; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry
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  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

example.” Looking at data from the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Statistics Sweden, they found that male executives earn 27 percent more than female executives, on average. The pay gap is smaller at the very top of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

to focus employees on a particular task and base their pay on the workers’ performance need to be aware of the potential tradeoff when it comes to the willingness of workers to develop innovative ideas, she... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

that are feeling threatened have learned how to bully younger upstarts by wielding licenses and patent law like a weapon. It certainly doesn't encourage the spirit of innovation, does it? However, it isn't... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

suggests that "Globalization will have reached its peak when we have global citizens who can pay their taxes where they please and enjoy the benefits of the government that serves them best no matter... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 7, 2019
  • Article

WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
While the WeWork saga has dealt another blow to already-low public confidence in business, it should also strengthen cries for fundamental changes to a system that offers supersized compensation for undersized performance. View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Initial Public Offering
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  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (B)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges faced by Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Zárate (Argentina). The strategy for moving forward was built on an... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Production; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Agreements and Arrangements; Strategic Planning; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Argentina
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  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Greenstein and Cao parsed both the broad difference in View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40 million people, and in 1966, Mao’s Cultural Revolution shut down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

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