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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

for shareholders. However, there is a sense, expressed by John Ippolito, that there is a lack of perception in boards of directors of "what constitutes 'creating value' in the enterprise many boards are too ready to turn over the keys to the incoming CEO—then... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

tax cut in 2017 he did it by visiting Harley-Davidson’s facilities in his home state of Wisconsin. The Company had not performed well in recent years. By 2017, its profits were $521 million on revenues of about $5.6 billion; both figures were below 2013 results. Over... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • Web

1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges in the stock market crash of 1929, and the regulation of the... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About

United States Steel Corporation, the world’s first billion-dollar company. At various times Morgan controlled 70 percent of the country’s steel industry, one-fifth of all corporations trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and the three... View Details
  • October 2013
  • Article

Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner
For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • May 2004
  • Article

The Risky Business of Hiring Stars

By: Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda and Nitin Nohria
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people... View Details
Keywords: Staffing; Employee Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Retention; Competitive Advantage; Human Resources; Performance
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

and useful comparative ratios among states such as net earnings to cost, net earnings to gross, and stocks to bonds. Managers and investors eagerly bought copies of Poor’s Manual , which allowed them to follow a company’s growth and... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

compensation package added up to $15.2 million in 2013, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That compensation includes a vast array of factors, such as salary, bonuses, stock options, and long-term incentive payouts. Interlocking... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

perks like bonuses, commissions, or stock options tied to hitting certain goals. But managers may not realize that these incentives could contribute to employee dissatisfaction, burnout, and personal problems at home. “The more our... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

customer-centric. Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain LayoffsCutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, One suggestion: Pay special attention to staff who handle mundane tasks such as stocking and labeling. Your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

structures follow a similar pattern. Brown decided to go another route—an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP). In 2016, Brown agreed to sell 100 percent of his ownership stake to the firm’s employees. The move helps preserve the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 17 Aug 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
  • November 2018 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?

By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Gulick
In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country’s brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry... View Details
Keywords: Branding; Brand Management Of Places; Nation Branding; Brand Positioning; Public Diplomacy; Marketing Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Perception; Change; Israel
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Donor-Advised Fund - Alumni

values How It Works A donor-advised fund may be opened with a gift of $1 million or more using a variety of assets, including stock and real estate. You can direct gifts to any purpose at HBS and other Harvard schools, as well as other... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Republican—are 3.2 percent more likely to leave their companies when they are “politically misaligned” with their colleagues. Shareholders collectively lose $238 million, on average, after their departure is announced, the research shows. When politically misaligned... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

market and accumulated expatriate savings overseas provided them with funds to expand on a greater scale, though it also created governance structures which were more dependent on contracts and relationships than equity. Though joint View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in that context as either... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2023 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Optimalen Capital

By: Malcolm Baker, Elisabeth Kempf and Jonathan Wallen
A new client portfolio manager at a quantitative investment management firm must explain why her firm, Optimalen Capital, has rebalanced a client portfolio with a set of trades that seem unintuitive. In particular, Optimalen has added to its position of Walmart (ticker... View Details
Keywords: Investments; CAPM; Capital Asset Pricing Model; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Stocks
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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

and two colleagues purchased controlling stock in Zions First National Bank from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Three years later Zions and Lockhart merged to form Zions Bancorporation, and Roy was soon elected chairman... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now: Assessing their current cultures... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson