Director Pay - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

look at the design of option plans and be much more careful about the rate at which they vest. There'll be talk about whether some of the proceeds should go into incentive banks, with a claw-back if there's poor performance. We'll talk about whether View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

policy may reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating towards low dividend paying firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the interests of their institutional shareholders. Evidence is provided that both effects are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, professor at the University of Maryland; Luc Laeven, director at the European Central Bank Research Department; and Karsten Müller, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. Data ‘unprecedented in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the dynamics of organizational sectors. How Should We Pay for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

higher due to the extra career-related effort. The end result is that the firm may pay for more effort than it wanted to consume. Q: Why is non-contractible information about executives important? A: Non-contractible information distorts... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04), the cofounder and managing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World—co-authored by HBS Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, HBS project director Shirley Spence, and writer Russ Banham—shares more than 200 stories of HBS graduates who have taken steps toward... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

institutions, added Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (HBS MBA '99). A director of the Fate Foundation Nigeria and Fate Foundation U.S.A., two nonprofits that try to promote entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Nwuneli said, "A company can, instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a job for life... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-017.pdf Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO Authors: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf Abstract Performance-based pay is an important instrument... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

“Heroes List” of authentic leaders who are making a difference in overcoming the challenges of COVID-19: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been at the center of every virus... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

somehow behave differently from business people because they have passed some kind of certification process." As Deepak Alse put it, "Licensing or professional tags will not have any impact on the personal ethics...What we really need are more independent and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

nonprofitsneed to be able to compete on a level playing field. "So much of theirability to compete is based upon the availability of capital and how theyacquire it." Jed Emerson Social Return On Investment Jed Emerson has also been deeply engrossed in the... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

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