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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • June 2011
  • Supplement

Arck Systems (F)

By: Ian Larkin
The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star” performers. The cases track a... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 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
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Employment Industry
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  • 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
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

paper with Harvard graduate students Sonia Jaffe (Department of Economics) and Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School). Carmen Nobel: How can a discount voucher service like Groupon benefit retailers?... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 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
  • 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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  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

club induction are actually willing to pay to get over the margin and into the club," Larkin says. Importantly, Larkin observed that there were no apparent financial benefits to attaining club membership.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Surprise Donation Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They use uncertainty to justify options 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing