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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The...
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- April 2022
- Case
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
"Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The case identifies six distinct phases in the...
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Keywords:
History;
Business History;
Gender;
Management;
Employees;
Leadership;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Work-Life Balance;
Prejudice and Bias;
Social Issues;
Diversity;
Equity;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" Harvard Business School Case 422-066, April 2022.
- January 2022
- Article
Determinants of Gender Differences in Change in Pay among Job-Switching Executives
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
The authors investigate what determines differences in change in pay between men and women executives who move to new employers. Using proprietary data of 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, the authors observe narrower pay differences between men and...
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Keywords:
Executive Pay;
Executive Labor Market;
Gender Pay Gap;
External Recruitment;
Executive Compensation;
Gender;
Human Capital
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Determinants of Gender Differences in Change in Pay among Job-Switching Executives." Industrial & Labor Relations Review 75, no. 1 (January 2022): 168–199.
- 2021
- Book
The Future of Executive Development
By: Mihnea C Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the...
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Moldoveanu, Mihnea C., and Das Narayandas. The Future of Executive Development. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2021.
- Fall 2021
- Article
Job-Hopping Toward Equity: Changing Employers Can Help Narrow the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
Changing employers has been linked to larger pay increases for executives and managers. Although survey-based studies suggest that men gain more than women, an analysis of more than 2,000 job moves found that executive women are commanding bigger increases than men...
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Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Job-Hopping Toward Equity: Changing Employers Can Help Narrow the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 1 (Fall 2021).
- July 2021
- Article
Consumers—Especially Women—Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher Gender Pay Gaps
By: Tobias Schlager, Bhavya Mohan, Katherine DeCelles and Michael I. Norton
We document a unique driver of consumer behavior: the public disclosure of a firm’s gender pay gap. Four experiments provide causal evidence that when firms are revealed to have gender pay gaps, consumers are less willing to pay for their goods, a reaction driven by...
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Keywords:
Pay Gap;
Perceived Wage Fairness;
Purchase Intention;
Gender;
Wages;
Fairness;
Perception;
Consumer Behavior
Schlager, Tobias, Bhavya Mohan, Katherine DeCelles, and Michael I. Norton. "Consumers—Especially Women—Avoid Buying from Firms with Higher Gender Pay Gaps." Special Issue on Consumer Psychology for the Greater Good. Journal of Consumer Psychology 31, no. 3 (July 2021): 518–531.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek
to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting
and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received...
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Keywords:
Pay Transparency;
Online Labor Market;
Privacy;
Wage Gap;
Negotiation;
Corporate Disclosure;
Compensation and Benefits;
Gender
Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28903, June 2021. (Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take coffee breaks together, go to lunch,
hang out over drinks, and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’
social interactions with their managers are advantageous for their careers and...
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Keywords:
Career;
Promotions;
Social Interactions;
Networking;
Gender;
Personal Development and Career;
Wages;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap." Working Paper, June 2021. (Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Review.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities
By: David J. Collis and Bharat Anand
The concept of dynamic capabilities draws its theoretical basis from two classic traditions within the strategy field—the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) (Wernerfelt, 1984) and market positioning (Porter, 1996). A dynamic capability qualifies as a source of...
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Collis, David J., and Bharat Anand. "The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-029, September 2019.
- March–April 2019
- Article
The Future of Leadership Development
By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that...
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Keywords:
Talent Management;
Executive Education;
Leadership Development;
Business Education;
Management Skills;
Learning;
Online Technology
Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea Moldoveanu. "The Future of Leadership Development." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 40–48. (Spotlight Talent Management.)
- 2016
- Article
Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
This paper investigates how external mobility influences the gender compensation gap for job switching executives. Using proprietary data for 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, we find job switching narrows the gender gap by 45%, from 11% to 6%. We...
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Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?" Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2016).
- August 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
The $70K CEO at Gravity Payments
By: Mitchell Weiss, Michael I. Norton, Michael Norris and Sarah McAra
In 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price took a massive pay cut to raise the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 annually. In the wake of a national discussion of wage equality, he was met with cheers and jeers. The company hoped that the unorthodox move would,...
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Keywords:
Wage Gap;
"Credit Card Processing";
CEO Pay;
Inequality;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Human Capital;
Wages;
United States
Weiss, Mitchell, Michael I. Norton, Michael Norris, and Sarah McAra. "The $70K CEO at Gravity Payments." Harvard Business School Case 816-010, August 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
- Article
How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay
By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different...
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Keywords:
Inequality;
Justice;
Wage;
Cross-cultural;
Wages;
Equality and Inequality;
Fairness;
Income;
Employees;
Management Teams;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, and Michael I. Norton. "How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay." Perspectives on Psychological Science 9, no. 6 (November 2014): 587–593.
- November 2013
- Article
Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies
By: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using...
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Keywords:
CEO Compensation;
International Pay;
Incentives;
Cross-listing;
United Kingdom;
Motivation and Incentives;
Executive Compensation;
Globalization;
Corporate Governance;
United Kingdom;
United States
Gerakos, Joseph, Joseph Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013).
- June 2013
- Article
What Is Privacy Worth?
By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy...
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Acquisti, Alessandro, Leslie K. John, and George Loewenstein. "What Is Privacy Worth?" Journal of Legal Studies 42, no. 2 (June 2013): 249–274.
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19...
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Keywords:
Equity;
Ownership;
Motivation and Incentives;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Venture Capital;
Managerial Roles;
Cost Management;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists." November 1999. (First draft in 1998.)
- Research Summary
Overview
My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details