Publications

2011
Working Paper

Much Ado About Nothing: Expropriation and Compensation in Peru and Venezuela, 1968-75

By: Noel Maurer

May 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Teaching Note

Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Doug J. Chung

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 517-090, 517-133, 519-095, and 519-096. View Details

06 Dec 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim

November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics

Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive (CE) of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd (Altron), considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. In June 2011, Altron, a conglomerate... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Environmental Sustainability

Educators

September 1994 (Revised December 1996)
Teaching Note

Duckworth Industries, Inc.--Incentive Compensation Programs TN

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-293-091). View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

Spring 2014
Article

The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity

By: Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino and Anat Keinan

Keywords: Status and Position; Societal Protocols

Register to Read

December 1994
Article

Benefits of Narrow Business Strategies

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Business Strategy

2004
Case

Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools

By: Allen Grossman, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Jennifer Suesse

Keywords: Education; Urban Scope; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Colorado

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

number of execs with at least one stigma on their resume was large, accounting for 18 percent of more than 2,000 executives placed between 2004 and 2011. After controlling for education, gender, experience, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

April 1994
Article

Salesforce Compensation Plans: An Individual Level Analysis

By: R. Lal, D. Outland and R. Staelin

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

October 2006
Article

Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New Ventures

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Business Ventures

June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
Case

Hawthorne (B): The Hawthorne Compensation Consulting Practice

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Geoffrey Love

Keywords: Markets; Compensation and Benefits; Strategy

July 2016 (Revised September 2016)
Teaching Note

Banking On Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Teaching Note for 917-402. View Details

Article

Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim

We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct, and they had left the organization... View Details

Keywords: Financial Misconduct; Stigma; Finance; Crime and Corruption; Executive Compensation; Employees; Compensation and Benefits

July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation committee had to decide whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Stock Options; Stock Shares; Annual Reports; Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry

Educators

2008
Working Paper

Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard

The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks

March 2012
Teaching Note

Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

2016
Working Paper

An Evaluation of Compensation Benchmarking Peer Groups Based on Mutual Peer-Designating Behaviors

By: Jee Eun Shin

In this paper, I argue that firms mutually recognizing each other as compensation benchmarking peers constitute viable competitors in the same CEO labor market, and that non-mutual peer relationships can serve as a tool to evaluate firms’ executive compensation... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation