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      • December 2020
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      France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

      By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
      These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devasting impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

      This case series follows the evolution of France Telecom...  View Details
      Keywords: Health & Wellness; Human Resource Management; Strategic Change; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Change; Restructuring; Crime And Corruption; Ethics; Health; Human Capital; Human Resources; Labor; Labor And Management Relations; Labor Unions; Law; Social Psychology; Strategy; Leadership; Leadership Style; Organizations; Problems And Challenges; Relationships; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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      Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Ashley V. Whillans. "France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 721-420, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Social Salary Setting at Spiber

      By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
      This case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their own salary. In the course of...  View Details
      Keywords: Compensation; General Management; Employee Benefits; Incentives; Motivation; Compensation And Benefits; fairness; Motivation And Incentives; Management; Happiness; Negotiation; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Japan
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      Whillans, Ashley, and John Beshears. "Social Salary Setting at Spiber." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-014, November 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      Union Square Hospitality Group: Hospitality Included

      By: Peter Boumgarden, Ryan W. Buell, Lamar Pierce and Richard Ryffel
      In 2015, Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), helmed by famous restauranteur Danny Meyer, sent shockwaves through the restaurant industry by announcing the end of tipping in its restaurants. Under its new policy, Hospitality Included (HI), USHG would charge higher...  View Details
      Keywords: Restaurants; Tipping; Revenue Sharing; Service Operations; Policy; Change; Human Resources; Management; Food And Beverage Industry
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      Boumgarden, Peter, Ryan W. Buell, Lamar Pierce, and Richard Ryffel. "Union Square Hospitality Group: Hospitality Included." Harvard Business School Case 621-047, October 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
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      Culture at Google

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta
      Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of...  View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Resignation And Termination; Labor; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Wages; Law; Lawsuits And Litigation; Rights; Ethics; Values And Beliefs; fairness; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Mission And Purpose; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict Management; Trust; Motivation And Incentives; Prejudice And Bias; Power And Influence; Technology; Search Technology; Web; Hardware; Society; Social Issues; Culture; Civil Society Or Community; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Technology Industry; North And Central America; United States; California
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      Hsieh, Nien-hê, Amy Klopfenstein, and Sarah Mehta. "Culture at Google." Harvard Business School Case 320-050, March 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
      • January 2020
      • Article

      Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

      By: Ethan Rouen
      I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and...  View Details
      Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; Ceo Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; employees; Wages; Equality And Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
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      Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 343–378.
      • February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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      Hot Chicken Takeover

      By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
      By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the...  View Details
      Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values And Beliefs; fairness; Human Resources; Compensation And Benefits; Recruitment; employees; Retention; Selection And Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Mission And Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food And Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
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      Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
      • October 2017 (Revised March 2020)
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      Medicetra Medtech Company, Inc.

      By: Doug J. Chung
      Medicetra MedTech Company is a dental equipment distributor, and senior management is deciding whether to implement a new incentive compensation program for the sales force. For many years, Medicetra had paid salespeople only a fixed salary. Although the current plan...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales Compensation; Sales Force Retention; Employee Fairness; Salesforce Management; Compensation And Benefits; Motivation And Incentives; Retention; fairness; Performance Improvement
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      Chung, Doug J. "Medicetra Medtech Company, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 518-049, October 2017. (Revised March 2020.)
      • 2017
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      Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance

      By: Ethan Rouen
      I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee...  View Details
      Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; Ceo Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Wages; Equality And Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
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      Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and its Relation to Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-007, July 2017.
      • May 2017 (Revised October 2017)
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      Hyperloop Transportation Technologies: Building Breakthrough Innovations in Crowd-Powered Ecosystems

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Terri L. Griffith and Ann Majchrzak
      Dirk Ahlborn, co-founder and CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) looks back at the evolving organizational design and community that allows HTT to be crowd-powered. Since the founding in 2013, HTT has dealt with building an organization with less...  View Details
      Keywords: Collaboration; Crowdsourcing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Innovation; Organizational Design; Product Development; Startups; Business Startups; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Product Development
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Terri L. Griffith, and Ann Majchrzak. "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies: Building Breakthrough Innovations in Crowd-Powered Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 817-134, May 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
      • January–February 2017
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      Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Planning
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      Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 149–153.
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      Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do about It

      By: Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström and Derek Schrader
      U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't getting a good return on their investment. People soon revert to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change And Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Design; employees; Business Processes; United States
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      Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader. "Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do about It." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 10 (October 2016): 50–57.
      • April 2015
      • Case

      Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

      By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
      Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the...  View Details
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      Khan, Mozaffar, and George Serafeim. "Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 115-036, April 2015.
      • March 2015
      • Case

      Clifford Chance: Women at Work

      By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton
      It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to...  View Details
      Keywords: Women; Law; Organizational Culture; fairness; employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems And Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, Katherine Connolly, and Stephanie Marton. "Clifford Chance: Women at Work ." Harvard Business School Case 415-038, March 2015.
      • December 2014 (Revised April 2016)
      • Module Note

      Responsibilities to Employees

      By: Nien-he Hsieh
      The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The note frames the central ethical challenge for managers as exercising power in a fair manner. The fair exercise of power...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Legal Aspects Of Business; Employees; Responsibility; fairness; Decision Making; Ethics; fairness; employees; Decision Making; Jobs And Positions; Labor; Law
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      Hsieh, Nien-he. "Responsibilities to Employees." Harvard Business School Module Note 315-067, December 2014. (Revised April 2016.)
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      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...  View Details
      Keywords: Inequality; fairness; Justice; Income; Wage; Cross-cultural; Wages; Equality And Inequality; fairness; Income; employees; Management Teams; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues
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      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.
      • April 2013
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      Southfield Packaging

      By: Michael Beer and Alisa Zalosh
      Southfield Packaging provides packaging materials and services to medical device manufacturers. The case examines the relationship between a corporate vice president, Mark Sanders, and one of his direct reports, Regional Manager Frank Belby. Sanders' preparation for...  View Details
      Keywords: Rank And Position; Performance Evaluation; Problems And Challenges; Management Teams; Medical Devices And Supplies Industry; Distribution Industry; Service Industry
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      Beer, Michael, and Alisa Zalosh. "Southfield Packaging." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-562, April 2013.
      • January 2012 (Revised September 2015)
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      Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer

      By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Kyle Armbrester
      In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health,...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
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      Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Kyle Armbrester. "Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer." Harvard Business School Case 112-062, January 2012. (Revised September 2015.)
      • February 2007
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      South African Airways (A)

      By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
      Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO...  View Details
      Keywords: fairness; Crisis Management; employees; Employment; Growth And Development; Developing Countries And Economies; Air Transportation Industry; South Africa
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      Margolis, Joshua D., Laura Morgan Roberts, and Laura Winig. "South African Airways (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-014, February 2007.
      • July 1995
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      Managerial Duties and Business Law

      By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
      Consists of excerpts from Principles of Corporate Governance, a set of legal guidelines that enumerates the principal duties of corporate managers and directors, including fiduciary duty, duty of care, and duty of fair dealing. Also addresses legal obligations relating...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Governance; Retention; Common Law; Business Or Company Management; Goals And Objectives; Managerial Roles
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      Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Managerial Duties and Business Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-244, July 1995.
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