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TheLadders
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, Benjamin; Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, NicoleCase HBS-908061-EMarketingDespite strong appeal among job seekers and outside recruiters, TheLadders' corporate job listings seem to lag. Could raising prices help solve the problem? TheLadders considers this strategic paradox.Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-917019-ELeadership and People ManagementSocial media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values early in its growth. One of these values was a commitment to transparency in its company practices. Buffer openly shared its business strategies and fundraising decks, among lots of other information. Even when they were hacked, the company live-blogged updates to keep their users informed as the situation unfolded. Having internally released each employee's salary and equity de...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (B)
Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-911029-EThis case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during...Starting at €5.74
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (C)
Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-911030-EThis case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation becomes awkward when the candidate feels insulted because he is given a monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during...Starting at €5.74
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Maritz Automotive
Hall, Brian J.; Pierce, Lamar; Whillans, Ashley V.Case HBS-920052-EStrategyThis case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the sales targets are not reached. This pre-payment structure is what behavioral economists call "loss-framing." Broadly, this prepayment structure is an attempt to increase sales effor...Starting at €8.20
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Incentive Systems
Hall, Brian J.Case HBS-916029-EThis note serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design within organizations. The note focuses on the principal difficulties in designing incentive systems, including the trade off between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive systems in team environments, and the inherent problems with designing incentive systems in environments where workers are involved in multiple activities.Starting at €8.20
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Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged)
Hall, Brian J.; Huang, KarenCase HBS-913036-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the compensation and performance evaluations at an investment management company. The senior management team of Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many believed that typical hedge fund manager pay (20% of the upside) would harm the MFS culture, which glorified "star performance but not star egos." The case presents the MFS compensation ...Starting at €8.20
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YAAS's Service Center
Hall, Brian J.; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-914049-EThis case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whether team incentives are bes...Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com (B)
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-917020-ELeadership and People ManagementBuffer decided to release its salaries and compensation calculation formula to the public, and the public reaction was greater and more positive than they would have imagined. The company experienced both an increase in volume and a change in the kinds of inbound applications they received. As the company continued to grow, Buffer's senior leaders continued to revise the compensation formula based on feedback both internally and from the public. ...Starting at €5.74
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YAAS's Service Center (B)
Hall, Brian J.; del Nido, SaraCase HBS-914050-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to case 914049. This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whet...Starting at €5.74