Authors:Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried,
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: executive, compensation, promise, unfulfilled, performance, pay
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0674022289
ISBN-13: 9780674022287

The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers’ influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have persistently failed

Author: Albert O. Hirschma
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: firms, organizations, states, decline, responses, voice, loyalty, exit
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674276604
ISBN-13: 9780674276604

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other-voice-is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change "from within." The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned fo

Author: Eric A. Posner
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: norms, social, law
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-03-08
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 0674008146
ISBN-13: 9780674008144

Law and Social Norms Eric A. Posner What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that current understanding of social norms is inadequate for guiding judges and lawmakers. What is needed, and what this book offers, is a model of the relationship betwee

Authors:David L. Kirp,  Elizabeth Popp Berman, Jeffr
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: higher, education, marketing, line, einstein, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674016343
ISBN-13: 9780674016347

"How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are ""customers"" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university’s research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university’s success. With a shr

Author: Professor Harold Jame
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: depression, lessons, globalization
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-10-15
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0674010078
ISBN-13: 9780674010079

"Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events. James examines one of the great historical nightmares of the twentieth century: the collapse of globalism in the Great Depression. Analyzing this collapse in terms of three main components of g

Authors:Michelle J. Alpert M.D., Saul Wisnia,  Cindy a
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: family, press, university, health, guides, harvard, guide, cord, injury, new, spinal
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0674027159
ISBN-13: 9780674027152

Spinal cord injury, or SCI, is frequently sudden and unexpected—through accident, disease, or violence, patients temporarily lose control of their bodies and, it seems, their lives. With rehabilitation, they can learn to navigate their world once more, retraining muscles and mind to compensate for paralyzed limbs and diminished strength. But as Dr. Michelle Alpert shows here, there is far more to recapturing full, independent lives than regaining movement. Central to long-term success is mending the family unit. Combining Dr. Alpert’s clinical experience with patients’ own stor

Author: Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: americans, making, food, ethnic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-04-17
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0674001907
ISBN-13: 9780674001909

Donna R. Gabaccia, a professor of American history, explores how ethnicity has influenced the eating habits of Americans and determines that America is "not a multi-ethnic nation, but a nation of multi-ethnics." Can a country that eats bagel dogs and Thai chicken pizza still find ways to preserve the "original" foods of its immigrants? Is this even a worthwhile task, if the immigrants themselves are eager to assimilate into the larger culture, and the food industry is just as eager to co-opt (and, Gabaccia notes, water down) their native cuisine? Through case studies and anecdotal accounts, Ga