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- 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
Nanda, Ashish. "Note on Valuation-Compensation Tradeoff in Professional Service Firm Acquisitions." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-111, February 2003. (Revised August 2004.)
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
developing employees by figuring out their passions, giving them relevant experiences to help them become more marketable, and helping them on their way when they are ready to exit. Companies can then View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
mega-organization CEO positions? Is there something about the need for high compensation and the "score keeping" that goes with it that distinguishes desirable CEO candidates from others? Can (or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2017
- Article
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital." History of Political Economy 49, no. 2 (June 2017): 347–381.
- 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
- Web
Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
digital platforms create and capture value, and discover how to launch, scale, maintain, and compete against platform businesses Engage with a global cohort of like-minded... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
they’re putting out small fires everywhere by answering emails and crossing relatively menial obligations off the to-do list. To relieve time stress, people would benefit by setting aside blocks of time... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- February 1984
- Case
Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (C)
By: D. Quinn Mills, George W. Baird and George W. Baird
Provides a glossary of executive compensation terms. Rewritten by G.W. Baird, company partner. View Details
Mills, D. Quinn, George W. Baird, and George W. Baird. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (C)." Harvard Business School Case 484-071, February 1984.
- 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
- Web
Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
your organization's strategic agenda. Key Benefits Focused on improving the quality and delivery of health care, Value Measurement for Health Care provides more efficient and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
to advance African Americans in that part of the company. And that's what we're doing, and we're going to have to tie it to people's compensation in a clearer way. Neeley:... View Details
- November 2002
- Article
One More Pension Concern: Earnings Boosts From Settlement, Curtailment, and Termination Gains
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits
Hawkins, David F. "One More Pension Concern: Earnings Boosts From Settlement, Curtailment, and Termination Gains." Accounting Bulletin, no. 112 (November 2002).
- 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
Leschly, Stig. "Excel Academy Charter Middle School, The." Harvard Business School Case 804-113, January 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
- winter 2004
- Article
Transferable Stock Options (TSOs) and the Coming Revolution in Equity-Based Pay
By: Brian Hall
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
- Identify and describe stereotypes that may bias our perceptions and impede our ability to trust each other. - Evaluate and develop your personal influence style. -Analyze,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
In striving to be of benefit to American society and the economy, antitrust has succeeded in mirroring the many-faceted self-contradictions with which Americans view business. That having been said, when one... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- Other Unpublished Work
Risk Aversion, Risk Premium and the Choice of Capital Projects
By: S. Datar, R. Banker and B. Gopi
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
outside firms, and that knowledge is diffusing in both directions." One implication for executives: Don't lock your scientists, researchers, and inventors in ivory towers. Your organization will View Details