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  • June 2016
  • Case

Controversy over Executive Remuneration at BP

By: V.G. Narayanan and Ashley Hartman
In March 2016, BP disclosed that its chief executive officer, Bob Dudley, would receive a $19.6 million compensation package, a 20% increase in total compensation over the previous year. BP justified the amount, emphasizing that the company delivered strong results... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation
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  • Teaching Interest

MBA Elective Curriculum: Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

This course teaches future general managers, entrepreneurs, and consultants how to execute strategy and deliver results. Using readings, exercises, and case studies in industries as diverse as healthcare space exploration, and software development, you will learn to... View Details

  • Blog

Visit the HBS Executive Education Campus-Virtually

Are you considering one of our on-campus Executive Education programs? Get a taste of the environment with our online tour, featuring the buildings that Executive Education participants spend most of the... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

middle managers and line employees attempt to execute the explicit strategy. Unfortunately, these strategies often diverge. They are not aligned. And so the potential of the enterprise becomes unrealized. "Strategy therefore becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 21 May 2020
  • Video

Executive Presence (Behind a Screen)

  • Mar 06 2017
  • Short Film

Experience The Senior Executive Leadership Program—India

  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

New Executive Education Programs

HBS Executive Education is offering a number of programs designed to address the challenging global economy and to keep executives at the cutting edge of business thinking. Taught by senior HBS faculty,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • May 2022
  • Case

Executive Decision-Making at Zola

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto
In April 2020, Rachel Jarrett, President and COO of wedding technology company Zola, called a meeting with the organization’s key decision-makers. The company had previously launched three business expansions: a vendor marketplace, a wedding apparel division, and a... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Voting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Skills; Management; Management Style; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

Summary Given today's turbulent environment, business leaders are seeking a new path to success for their companies. But while many firms talk about transforming themselves around current trends such as digitization and remote work, most struggle when it comes to... View Details
  • February 2006
  • Article

Wealth and Executive Compensation

Using new data on the wealth of Swedish CEOs, I show that higher wealth CEOs receive stronger incentives. Since high wealth (excluding own-firm holdings) implies low absolute risk aversion, this is consistent with a risk aversion explanation. To examine whether wealth... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Competency and Skills; Wages; Sweden
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  • September 2016 (Revised March 2017)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 3: Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control

By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use information to control critical business processes and outcomes. The analysis begins by illustrating how managers use information to communicate goals and track performance. Then the focus turns to the choices that managers... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Organization Process; Feedback Model; Innovation; Uses Of Information; Big Data; Benchmarking; Decision Making; Information; Performance Evaluation; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 13 Feb 2017
  • News

HBS Launches Executive Program In India

  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 1979
  • Article

Organizational Behavior for Executives

By: Roy Lewicki and John J. Gabarro
Keywords: Management; Organizations; Behavior
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  • November 2022
  • Teaching Note

Executive Decision-Making at Zola

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto
Teaching Note for HBS Case. No. 622-074. View Details
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  • January 2019
  • Module Note

Executing Active Investment Strategies

By: Samuel G. Hanson
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  • November – December 1996
  • Article

The Executive as Coach

By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler
Keywords: Management
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  • Teaching Interest

Senior Executive Leadership Program, India (SELPI)

By: Sunil Gupta
India is one of the fastest growing economies. This modular program is designed to hone the business and leadership skills of executives who are planning to leverage the opportunities in this emerging market.

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  • 27 Oct 2024
  • Video

Chief Executive Leadership Programs

  • 20 Feb 2014
  • News

Helping the Passive-Aggressive Executive

Keywords: conflict resolution; human behavior; management style