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  • 2000
  • Other Unpublished Work

Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Brian J. Hall and Luis M. Viceira
Executive stock options create incentives for executives to manage firms in ways that maximize firm market value. Since options increase in value with the volatility of the underlying stock, executive stock options provide managers with incentives to take actions that... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Stock Options; Executive Compensation
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  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

Presentations (video) W50 Summit Photo Gallery HBS Resources Alumni Career & Professional Development – Career management and professional development resources for HBS alumni.... View Details
  • March 29, 2021
  • Editorial

Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

By: Shibeal O'Flaherty, Michael Sanders and A.V. Whillans
As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged—without breaking the bank? In this piece, the authors share new research on the power of symbolic awards... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Psychology; Work; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Social Psychology
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  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

Among the culprits contributing to the recent financial crisis were bank loan officers who approved mortgage loans that were doomed to fail. Many of these frontline workers were motivated by bonuses and other incentives to approve quantity over quality. Critics decried... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

insights in particular: Employees and managers can disagree on impact. Although employees and managers may both think the impact of a person’s work is important, this does not mean they will agree about when... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

  • 30 Oct 2017
  • News

HR is not there to be your friend. It’s there to protect the company

  • August 2019 (Revised March 2020)
  • Background Note

Note on Structured Interviewing

By: Ethan Bernstein and Amy Ross
Making good hiring decisions is a critical management activity, yet many leaders just “wing it” when interviewing candidates to fill openings by having an organic conversation to assess the candidate’s fit, unknowingly subjecting the process to unconscious bias.... View Details
Keywords: Interviewing; Job Interviews; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Resources
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Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies

By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporation; State-owned Enterprises; State Capitalism; FDI; Internationalization; Government And Business; National Oil Companies; State Ownership; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; Energy Industry; China; India; Europe
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  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Career Coach

Jing Lin Lee

various dimensions as well as how best to leverage the many resources available at HBS. For those who are undecided, Jing Lin can guide students to identify viable careers that are well-suited for them through a multifaceted approach. For... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Emerging Markets; Fintech; Financial Services (All); Technology
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

drive costs down and benefit from specialization because of its high volume of activities. "With growth, the way a firm is managed has to change, and that change is not easy." Among law firms, Wachtell Lipton maintains a premium market... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • June 1993 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Duckworth Industries, Inc.--Incentive Compensation Programs

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
A private company is considering an introduction of a long-run incentive compensation system in which payoffs to managers are determined by the economic value added for shareholders by their individual business units. The proposed new system is compared to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value Creation
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

focuses on how management principles and best practices from other industries can be applied; how the process of innovation can be improved; how principles of strategy and consumer choice can be utilized; how information technology can... View Details
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

    Dafna Bearson

    Dafna Bearson is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategy and innovation. Specifically, her research focuses on intellectual property commercialization strategy in startups... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; high technology
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    practical applicability of others. “The FBI division-level strategic plans are useful as management tools, but they are not uniformly threat-based nor do they align with a needed corporate strategic plan for the Bureau that would allocate... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 09 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 9, 2007

    people—particularly star performers—making major career transitions to management. As firms have become leaner and more dynamic, new managers have described a transition that gets more difficult all the time. But the transition is often... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Apr 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

    public and private sectors learn from the events of the past few months? In the public realm, Sandeep Yadav concluded, “It is only by sharing resources globally that we can distribute the burden of fighting the next Black Swan.” The... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 12 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55597 2019 Academy of Management Annals Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? By: Clough, David R., Tommy... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman