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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
were unable to provide new loans to underwrite company growth. “The recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis.” Even large companies that could ordinarily rely on public equity or debt markets discovered that both were effectively... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Publications May-June 2015 Human Resource Management Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago By: Beer, Michael, Paul Boselie, and Chris Brewster Abstract—Thirty... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
specialize if you can identify that intersection point, they said. There are many new areas in the climate arena with a shortage of subject matter experts. Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
groups. Moments later I saw a similar plea from a former Black co-worker on LinkedIn – asking for his manager to utter at least one word on the current events. And now there’s this letter series where Black students are yet again exhausting their emotional View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
This case investigates both micro and macro issues around strategic human capital development. First, it explores how Egon Zehnder, a leading global search and advisory firm, assesses talent in the firms for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of value -- including View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
need to get the wrong people off the bus, but what about the need to avoid putting the wrong people on the bus in the first place? As Capital One's CEO, Richard Fairbank, put it several years ago, "At most companies, people spend 2... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
degrees of outside influence they will and should tolerate. A Rich founder whose firm is lacking in human capital, experience, and capital may benefit greatly from a VC's experience, contacts, and financial... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
should meet with a tax or financial professional well in advance of a job transition. Having a clear strategy in place helps to ensure that these decisions are made thoughtfully while helping to prevent unanticipated surprises. 3. Beware of Common Behavioral Traps... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the environment, is in steep decline... View Details
- April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects
By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
Stanton, Christopher, Richard Saouma, and Olivia Hull. "Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects." Harvard Business School Case 819-072, April 2019. (Revised January 2025.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Murphy, Kevin J., and Michael C. Jensen. "CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-022, October 2011.
- October 2024
- Supplement
Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
This case is a continuation of an earlier study chronicling Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt)’s transformation from an obscure boutique to a global corporate advisory firm with an outsized reputation. In August 2024, the firm faced a pivotal moment as managing partner Varun... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
Fuller, Joseph B., and Lena Duchene. "Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 825-087, October 2024.
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being linked to growing inequities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2024
- Case
Freelancer, Ltd.
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Labor Markets; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Change Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employment; Global Range; Employment Industry
Stanton, Christopher, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. "Freelancer, Ltd." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 823-706, July 2024.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deteriorated under Saddam, so too did operational knowledge and skills, personified in the human capital destroyed in Iraq’s several wars or stifled by Saddam’s repression. But in some respects, Iraq is... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on an ontological model of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne