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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
variable that would make a big difference to costs that they needed shop workers vested in controlling. They tied its reduction to dividends, but that “didn’t move the needle one bit,” Bangert recalls in the case. Employees “still felt...
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by Avery Forman
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-074 Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures Setting equitable and "market" level compensation for founders...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
dependent variable and IV regressions, and we find that our market-to-book findings are robust to these specifications. Portfolios formed on digital activity disclosure earn a DGTW-adjusted return of 30% over a 3-year horizon and a...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
class. The basic historical premises for including PE were: Superior net returns relative to public markets or public market equivalents and superior returns compensating for the associated lack of liquidity Low correlations relative to...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
multiple identities in organizations and spark novel research questions in the organizational literature. March 2014 Article Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat By: Leslie K. John,...
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- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t...
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- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
lies in finding the sweet spot between these two undesirable outcomes, and determining how compensation can motivate salespeople best. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Chung and several executives from the consulting firm...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
minutes to handle an inquiry, and 50 minutes to perform a credit check. Deriving cost-driver rates. The cost-driver rates can now be calculated by multiplying the two input variables we have just estimated. For our customer service...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
from others seeking work. Many other restaurant employees, particularly front-of-house tipped workers, earned more while working than receiving unemployment compensation and want to return quickly, but are concerned their income will drop...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on bonds also predict returns...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
supposed to pay off, the greater the uncertainty. Hence, investment decisions and compensation contracts tend to converge toward more short-term, observable metrics that encourage corporate managers and professional money managers to...
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Variable Annuities” (The Review of Financial Studies, 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty: Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Finance, Accounting and Control category for “Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
primarily driven by growth at Executive Education, Publishing, and Online. All three groups delivered solid operating margin leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2019, and Online generated an operating surplus for the first time. Despite increases in View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative and penalizing companies that do not have a credible decarbonizing strategy. Consumers are increasingly demanding green products and are becoming sensitive to their carbon footprint, with many apps allowing them to keep track of it and even View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
sample have worked hard to keep workers productive, motivated, engaged, and connected through concerted actions. To compensate for the stress caused by remote working, several companies introduced flexible schedules to allow balancing...
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- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
http://hbr.org/search/914405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-067 Rodan + Fields Dermatologists The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is frustrated with the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
authors. "They use motivation [merely] as the rhetoric to justify their actions." Moreover, the authors found that only two variables in their survey were associated with corporate financial performance: the presence of a strong...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey