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  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Benefit New Leaders Experienced Leaders New Leaders have zero to three years of managerial experience and five-plus years of total professional experience. I loved being able to learn the material through... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

themselves, they take it with them forever.” Another key benefit and increasingly popular teaching resource emerging from today’s technology is its ability to bring case protagonists into the classroom... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) Benefits of TDABC for Health Care Q: How is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) useful in health care? A: TDABC provides accurate and... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

Keywords: by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
  • December 2007
  • Article

Applying Modern Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis

By: Robert C. Merton
Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation of capital risk in corporations with pension plans because under these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Valuation; Financial Reporting; Decision Making; Credit; Financial Statements; Capital; Equity; Compensation and Benefits
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Usage and Policies - Research Computing Services

to comply with applicable policies and laws governing the use of Harvard Business School’s technology resources and the protection of data privacy.... RCS Policies Access to RCS resources is intended only... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

is unique to each individual. Coaches help students and alumni assess what is needed to move forward, work with them to address specific obstacles, and direct them to other helpful resources. Who should opt... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the economy faster, which will benefit everyone on the... View Details

    The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital

    Most leadership books are written for people who are already labeled as “leaders”—corporate execs, high-ranking managers, entrepreneurs. They may not speak to the underrepresented young person or uncommon experienced person with a dream to create change in the... View Details

    • June 2000 (Revised December 2001)
    • Case

    Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)

    By: Brian J. Hall, Edward Lazear and Carleen Madigan
    Describes a company's changing of its compensation and incentive plan. In particular, it shows how a change from hourly pay to piece rate pay (for windshield installers) affected productivity, pay, and turnover. View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance Productivity; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Auto Industry
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    • 28 Mar 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Incentive Plans for Exemplary Employees Lead to Productive or Counterproductive Outcomes?

    Keywords: by Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino; Telecommunications
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

    underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also... View Details
    • 05 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

    are entire industries that have been created to help avoid paying taxes and find creative ways around compensating people, he said. "There's a lot of aiding and abetting... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
    Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2014
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

    be met offline or can be met only at much greater cost. Companies need to help people interact with each other before they will promote products to their friends or help companies in other ways. Done right, a company's social media should View Details
    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

    Trust Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg, and Julian Zlatev “People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet,... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

    measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

    By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

    Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

    Data... View Details

    Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • May 2004
    • Article

    Underwater Options and the Dynamics of Executive Pay-to-Performance Sensitivities

    By: Brian J. Hall and Thomas A. Knox
    Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Performance
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