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  • April 2012
  • Article

How Many Direct Reports?

By: Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf
If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Adaptation; Personal Development and Career; Cooperation; Management Teams
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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 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
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    • Research Summary

    Research Thrust

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
    • June 2025
    • Case

    Power Struggles: Hydro-Quebec’s Energy Dilemma

    By: Juan Alcacer and Danika Couture-Peck
    In 2024, Maxime Aucoin, Executive Vice President and CFO of Hydro-Quebec, faced a series of compounding challenges as the utility confronted rapidly rising electricity demand, public pricing constraints, and strained stakeholder relationships. As the steward of... View Details
    Keywords: Renewable Energy; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Vertical Integration; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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    • Program

    Program for Leadership Development

    Summary Innovative companies know that long-term success requires a pipeline of visionary leaders who can help build and secure a competitive edge. The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) prepares emerging executives to become more... View Details
    • March 2007 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    Green Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete?

    In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management organization with 10 high-performing high schools around Los Angeles, is faced with a crucial choice... View Details
    Keywords: Secondary Education; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Cooperation; Los Angeles
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    • May 2009
    • Case

    Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education

    By: Allen S. Grossman and Geoff Eckman Marietta
    Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education (MCBRE) was a business-public education partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) that promoted cross-sector knowledge sharing and academic excellence. Its suite of core student programs, such as “720,”... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; United States
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    • 01 Aug 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

    with values that support adaptability (among them openness, learning, and sharing), the result is very positive. Our conclusions were reached after collecting and examining survey data from hundreds of senior executives identifying those... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • 02 Aug 2022
    • Blog Post

    From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

    and would require a lot of business development and strategic planning. I convinced the executive leadership to let me spend a year in the business team. I made significant contributions while serving as a bridge between the siloed... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    In studying management control systems, Professor Sandino aims to understand how different control mechanisms can help lead employees within an organization to achieve common goals. Her work builds on contingency theory by exploring environmental, strategic, and... View Details
    • April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Sophie Hood
    Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the organization through the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In this situation, donations are likely... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Crisis Management; Nonprofit Organizations
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    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team Decisions

    Keywords: by Katherine B. Coffman, Clio Bryant Flikkema, and Olga Shurchkov
    • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Brightview Senior Living

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
    Marilynn Duker, CEO, was exploring how to grow the company while maintaining the culture that made it a leader in the field of senior housing. Brightview constructed and operated senior living apartment communities that offered independent living, assisted living, and... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • 12 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

    availability at certain times of the day. In these circumstances, it’s crucial to know how team members are coping with the added demands so that the team is able to support members, manage deadline expectations, and rebalance task loads... View Details
    Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
    • Person Page

    Full Biography

    By: Rohit Deshpande

    Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

    • December 2011
    • Article

    EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets

    By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna
    Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula.... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Business Model; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Research; Business Education; Learning; Financial Institutions; Framework; Transformation; Perspective; India; China; Brazil; South Africa; Turkey
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    • June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
    • Technical Note

    Sustaining Corporate Culture in a Growing Organization

    By: Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino
    An organization’s culture can be a significant source of sustainable competitive advantage. For the organization, it can attract job candidates who fit and align employees working in different teams around common goals. For employees, a strong culture can generate... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth and Development; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Management Systems
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      Elon Kohlberg

      Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

      Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • November – December 2009
      • Article

      Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company

      By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
      Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
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