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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

to source for and screen investments Managing growth Evaluating a portfolio Pro-rata investing’s pros and cons Creating a new firm and fundraising for a first-time fund Compensation and control within a firm Succession Course Content... View Details

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

following: Would the White Stone proposal truly compensate Tomas and Rodrigo for all their hard work to date? Would they be fairly compensated in the future given the risks that they would bear and the work... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

was built on individual freedom, with the expectation that employees would take responsibility for holding their peers accountable and address performance failures directly. The case explores how the company can establish a compensation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2005
News

A Renter’s Market

overseen by line managers. Lee, who is involved in senior-level hires and handles compensation and benefits issues, directly manages only a few individuals. Nonetheless, he says, “I spend about 20 percent of my workday on personnel... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if their employer chooses the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth

Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details

Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States

October 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Perelson Weiner LLP

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Das Narayandas

Perelson Weiner LLP, a successful accounting firm in New York City, is re-evaluating its incentive strategy as it makes plans to grow its business. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Growth and Development; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Planning; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Accounting Industry; New York (city, NY)

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

varied so widely. A policy aimed at strengthening the banking system, for example, might seem to have little in common with a policy designed to compensate the victims of involuntary unemployment. But the truth is that public deposit... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

15 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

Leadership and Corporate Accountability course, which focuses on the economic, legal, and ethical dimensions tied to corporate responsibility. “We were talking about how we might set compensation for our retail associates, and paying... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Aaron Chadbourne

the choices made by Kenneth Feinberg, the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation. We wanted to write a case looking at his compensation decisions and their implications." Upon its completion, the case was taught in Managing,... View Details

August 1997 (Revised June 2023)
Case

Fabritek, 1992

By: Janice H. Hammond

Describes a large-volume automotive parts contract in a high-quality machine work company. Quality and delivery problems arise when one of the four men on the job is replaced with a high producer who cannot earn a substantial bonus because of machine interference. View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Production; Quality; Manufacturing Industry

January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Teaching Note

Maritz Automotive

By: Ashley V. Whillans and Lamar Pierce

This case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the... View Details

Keywords: Loss-framing; Sales; Performance Improvement; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Theory; Auto Industry

March 2000
Case

Dell Computer Corporation: Share Repurchase Program

By: George C. Chacko and Luis M. Viceira

Dell Computer Corp. announced a share repurchase program shortly after a significant stock price drop. In this announcement, the company also states that it will use options contracts. This case looks at the options transactions and how they relate to Dell's employee... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Stock Options; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Computer Industry

July 1999
Case

Restructuring General Motors North America (A): Pay-for-Performance

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Presents the new pay-for-performance scheme adopted by General Motors (GM) in its 1999 reorganization of its sales and marketing organization. Once in operation, many administrative problems developed requiring a reconsideration of the scheme's basic architecture. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Compensation and Benefits; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Auto Industry; North America

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of shareholder proposals voted on by shareholders at annual meetings. The case then looks at the issue of executive View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2024
Working Paper

Does Pension Automatic Enrollment Increase Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment

By: John Beshears, Matthew Blakstad, James J. Choi, Christopher Firth, John Gathergood, David Laibson, Richard Notley, Jesal D. Sheth, Will Sandbrook and Neil Stewart

Does automatic enrollment into retirement saving increase household debt? We study the randomized roll-out of automatic enrollment pensions to ~160,000 employers in the United Kingdom with 2-29 employees. We find that the additional savings generated through automatic... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Saving; Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Compensation and Benefits