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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

can also play an important role in facilitating within-country migration. In the face of physical, informational and social barriers to migration, firms with nationwide hiring practices can benefit from... View Details
  • February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
  • Background Note

Note on Valuation-Compensation Tradeoff in Professional Service Firm Acquisitions

By: Ashish Nanda
This case highlights the tradeoff between valuation ascribed to professionals at the time of a professional services firm (PSF) acquisition and the postacquisition compensation of these professionals. It emphasizes how a high valuation at acquisition carries with it... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Employees; Acquisition; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation consultants suggest that a primary objective of rTSR is to filter shocks unrelated to managerial performance, following... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2017 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Tempur Sealy International (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
Analyzes the commercial relationship between Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm following the events discussed in the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Porter's 5 Forces; Bargaining Power; Buyer Power; Customer Power; Supplier Power; Negotiations; Value Capture; Consumer Durables; Consumer Discretionary; Mattresses; B-2-B; Industry Dynamics; Compensation; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Competition; Cooperation; Private Equity; Distribution; Negotiation; Industry Structures; Customers; Relationships; Leadership; Distribution Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • February 2000 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Butler Capital Partners and Autodistribution: Putting Private Equity to Work in France

Describes a proposed buyout transaction of Autodistribution, an entrepreneurial firm that is the leading car-parts distributor in France. The deal became feasible because of a failed takeover battle for Autodistribution's parent company. Private equity investor Butler... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Executive Compensation; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Industry; Auto Industry; France
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  • October 2008
  • Article

Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model with Monopsony

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Economics
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  • Web

SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

centuries of terrestrial economic development, especially those having to do with the natural environment. Class session 10: Market Power: Preserving Competition and Innovation Summary: As we look to refine the growing space market, how... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

rates, deal premiums, and completion rates in the UK, relative to the other European G-10 countries. We find that M&A deal volumes in the UK declined significantly in the aftermath of the 2011 Reforms, relative to deal volumes in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

of Colts fans. Their initial hypotheses correlated quite a bit with where everybody was from and what teams they liked, but I have to say, at the end of the day, the truth prevailed.” That truth will remain undisclosed for the View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

Verticals team in October of 2020. How have you used career services since graduating? One of the benefits of being an alum is that you have access to continued career coaching. About a year after graduating I went back to Martha View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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  • Web

Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About

screenshot) and reshared, possibly even becoming public. Additionally, even posts you consider personal or private may be viewed in the context of your HBS role and affiliation View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of business than others in my generation because I saw how a small... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

several strategic imperatives: the need to build a strong, desirable, and prestigious brand identity and grow a profitable and sustainable business. The case also provides an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

September 2016 announcement that Wells Fargo had settled with regulators for $185 million in relation to the years-long period of misconduct in sales. Subsequent investigations, terminations, compensation clawbacks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

emerging and developed markets. The stated objective was to create a corruption-proof social security infrastructure that enables the disenfranchised to access benefits without any diversion to middlemen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Excel Academy Charter Middle School, The

This case is set in the summer of 2002 in a recently approved charter middle school in Boston. The school's founders face a choice of compensation plans as they finalize the initial teaching team in the school. In particular, the founders are actively considering two... View Details
Keywords: Teaching; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Boston
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  • 27 Nov 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

words, "The 'pain' of conducting performance reviews is associated with a lack of clear mutual (management and employee) understanding of their purpose." At the heart of this concern was whether they are intended primarily to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

was an isolated incident. The board then weighed an important decision that turned on their view of the CEO’s role and the company’s compensation policies: Would a sanction be enough, or should the board... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage