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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
financial statements and executive compensation. Second, for bonds, the story had more to do with what the courts were doing. I found that bondholders were always first in line during corporate bankruptcies. They usually got paid something, and they were important in...
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- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
openly. This made it easy for FNC to determine which firms were Democratic-leaning in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election—looking at whether they had donated to George W. Bush, the Republican nominee, or to Al Gore, the...
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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
(as of 2017) is capped at 85,000 per year, although this does not include renewals or transfers. This triggers a lottery for determining who gets the visa, creating uncertainty for both the immigrant and the sponsor. The US system, like...
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
summation of total resource costs for a given process. Q: When calculating personnel cost rates, what are the main categories to include for each resource? A: The major drivers of personnel cost rates are: Salary & Benefits Space cost IT...
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- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation: View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
direct reports, as well as the direct reports of their peers. This pushes managers to work together to determine which employees to recommend for new opportunities across teams. Build a culture of innovation, learning, and recognition To...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
endowment’s fundamental purpose of maintaining intergenerational equity. The University executes this obligation in determining each year’s endowment payout rate—the percentage of the endowment’s fair market value withdrawn and...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
insurance companies. In the HBS case study Prudential Financial-General Motors Pension Risk Transfer: Back to the Future?, Viceira, with Emily A. Chien, wrote about the historic de-risking of GM's pension plan for salaried employees, a...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many constituents in the form of View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
In recent months, world leaders—including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow...
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by George C. Lodge
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
salary allocations to online ad clicks to admission decisions. Working PapersSecurities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. Authors:Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study securities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
(and demand for redistribution) even if luck plays no role. In other words, there is multiplicity even if the equilibrium tax rate is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (a quantity that expresses how important effort is, relative to luck, in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
methods for exploring layoff alternatives (such as furloughs, retraining, and reassignments), and determine options for three scenarios: a healthy present, short-term volatility, and an uncertain future. As firms like AT&T, Michelin,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
half of employees contribute to both the Roth and another 401(k) account, consistent with a tax diversification motive. Roth usage is decreasing in age, less likely among women, and only weakly correlated with salary and tenure once we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
tasted a Cabernet Sauvignon in one of Napa Valley's tasting rooms were not permitted to ship the wine directly to their home. In 2002, direct-to-consumer shipping was either banned or overly cumbersome in 37 states. W. Reed Foster, president of the Coalition for Free...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
job—imagine somebody applying for a job as a bank teller, and you’re going to a couple of different large banks, right now you’re making that evaluation based on what the starting salary is and maybe some other factors that aren’t...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
found no takers given injury concerns, their high asking price, and the supply of quality quarterbacks on the market. Given that cutting Newton would free up $19 million in space in salary cap terms and would cost the Panthers only $2...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
whatever, they have the determination and the grit to go in those spaces and perform and do well, because they’ve been taught how to learn and how they learn.Kerr: Continuing on that, you’ve already mentioned some of the important soft...
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