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Caso HBR: El "tres" de caballeros
Hall, Brian J.; Wasynczuk, AndrewArticle HBS-R1107RLeadership and People Management¿Cómo se puede reducir la plantilla, cuando casi todo el mundo tiene las mismas puntuaciones en evaluaciones de desempeño? vicepresidente de recursos humanos Nils Ekdahl se enfrenta a esa pregunta en Circale Corporation, una de ficción-componentes electrónicos distribuidor que acaba de completar una serie de adquisiciones. Ekdahl quiere hacer los recortes de personal objetivamente, pero los nuevos rendimientos del sistema de evaluar el desempeño ...Starting at €8.20
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Incentives Within Organizations (Spanish version)
Hall, Brian J.Case HBS-917S28Leadership and People ManagementServes as a brief introduction to incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive design. Focuses on the principal difficulties in implementing incentive systems, including the tradeoff between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive systems in team ...Starting at €8.20
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The Gentleman's "Three" (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Hall, Brian J.; Wasynczuk, AndrewArticle HBS-R1107Z-ELeadership and People ManagementHow do you reduce headcount when almost everyone gets the same scores on performance reviews? HR vice president Nils Ekdahl confronts that question at Circale Corporation, a fictional electronic-components distributor that has just completed a series of acquisitions. Ekdahl wants to make the personnel cuts objectively, but the company's new performance-review system yields disappointing results: On a five-point scale, virtually every employee get...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 (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
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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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GiveDirectly
Beshears, John; Schwartzstein, Joshua R.; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.Case HBS-918036-ELeadership and People ManagementHow should nonprofits design compensation systems to attract and retain talent? GiveDirectly is a respected charitable organization with an unconventional approach. Instead of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way to improve recipients' life satisfaction...Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com (Spanish version)
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-919S01Leadership and People Managementcompañía de medios sociales Buffer quería establecer valores de la empresa claras al comienzo de su crecimiento. Uno de estos valores fue un compromiso de transparencia en sus prácticas de la compañía. Búfer compartida abiertamente sus estrategias de negocio y las cubiertas de recaudación de fondos, entre mucha otra información. Incluso cuando fueron cortados, las actualizaciones en vivo en blogs de la compañía para mantener a sus usuarios inform...Starting at €8.20
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The Gentleman's "Three" (HBR Case Study)
Hall, Brian J.; Wasynczuk, AndrewArticle HBS-R1107X-ELeadership and People ManagementHow do you reduce headcount when almost everyone gets the same scores on performance reviews? HR vice president Nils Ekdahl confronts that question at Circale Corporation, a fictional electronic-components distributor that has just completed a series of acquisitions. Ekdahl wants to make the personnel cuts objectively, but the company's new performance-review system yields disappointing results: On a five-point scale, virtually every employee get...Starting at €8.20
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Incentives in the NFL (Abridged)
Hall, Brian J.; Wasynczuk, Andrew; Lim, Jonathan P.; del Nido, Sara; Dowd, KatherineCase HBS-909029-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note briefly describes compensation and incentive issues in one of the major US professional sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL). It first provides some background information on the labor market for players and the salary cap, and then describes incentive issues facing players and their agents.Starting at €8.20