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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
professors were doing what I liked to do, but with all the people in a section, the impact was multiplied eighty times," he observes. During his second year in the MBA Program, a research project on CEOs with Professor Nitin Nohria...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
everything else.” That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that encouraged the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don’t evoke...
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- 30 Jan 2009
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What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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How Much is Fair?
market to decide” what executive compensation should be, but added that “the problem comes when the market isn’t really free, and the CEO largely sets his own pay.” He further pointed out that from 1980 to...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
awards drives a sharp increase in CEO compensation. 1992 The SEC requires more disclosure of executive compensation, particularly stock options and perks. With more information in public view, the rules trigger an unintended upward pay...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
quite rough sometimes, Whitehead always as smooth as silk. In 2006, Goldman paid more than 50 of its employees $20 million or more. Wasn’t that a tip-off to the firm that the economy was totally unmoored from business fundamentals? John Whitehead, for one, said he...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2005
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Trouble in Mouse Land
for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
is based in Santa Clara, California, and managed by a CEO hired by Yeh. But this year, while carrying a full HBS course load, Yeh still spent about forty hours a week on company business, including regular travel to the West Coast. In...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
I cause a problem that harms you, my neighbor, now, we might find a way to negotiate so that I don’t harm you as much, and I’d compensate you for the harm I’ve done. But our biggest environmental challenge these days is climate change,...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
governance, is when neither CEO wishes to step aside. "The deal will likely be dead in the water," he observes. "If these individuals cannot satisfy their own career and financial interests, our research shows that, in general, the View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
Opportunities for Schools Mickey Freeman (MBA 1993) Name your high-school gym after a sneaker company? Go for it, says Education Funding Partners president and CEO Mickey Freeman. For-profit EFP matches Fortune 500 companies with large...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
that became industry leaders because of their innovative use of information technology, including Bank of America, American Airlines, and Frito-Lay. "All the stories in the book begin with CEOs who have a problem they think information...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Ask the Expert: Star Search
function of having an engaged and motivated workforce. So how do you keep talent engaged and motivated? There is a table stakes component that I believe is compensation related, and we obviously try to benchmark and maintain that. But...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 1999
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African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private equity deal...
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Mary Ellen Gardner