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- May 2019
- Supplement
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (D)
By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden
Chung, Doug J. "Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 519-096, May 2019.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution
By: Alan MacCormack, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on software to support its competitive position. However, the uncertain and dynamic nature of today’s global marketplace dictates that this software be continually evolved and adapted to meet new business challenges. This... View Details
Keywords: Information Systems; Software; Architecture; Modularity; Agility; Coupling; Applications and Software; Design; Decisions; Performance
MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-105, May 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- June 2016
- Article
When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs
By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Ljuboja, Damir, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant, and Sachin Jain. "When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs." American Journal of Managed Care 22, no. 6 (June 2016): e196–e198.
- 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
- Conference Presentation
Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
member of the Cherokee Nation, his father’s people, where his tribal name is Blackberry. He grew up between Omaha and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer. It would be decades before... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
corporate roles is to improve upon traditional vicarious learning models. ©iStock.com/cacaroot Instead, Myers envisions a model of coactive vicarious learning. “The major shift theoretically is moving from a language of transfer, of... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
compassionate, and kind is apparent in his deep friendships as well as in the roles that he cherishes most (especially now that he’s passed the baton to a successor at Insper): husband, father, and grandfather. His wife of 47 years,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
results are mainly driven by urban weavers competing aggressively against rural coworkers. Our results highlight the important role of social identity in mitigating or enhancing competition. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition
help students take on the role of an impact investor, walking them through topics such as how to measure impact or how to analyze a term sheet. MIINT at Harvard is organized by the HBS Impact Investing Club and HBS Senior Lecturer Brian... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession planning, and investment... View Details
- 19 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
United States, but it still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion for contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three objectives for... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
in unconscious processes. Growing recognition of this is one reason for the increased interest among marketers of the role of emotions in decision-making. Deep metaphors, being a part of this unconscious language of thought, have three... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
health care marketplace and make competing on value central to their strategy. All stakeholders in the health care industry—regulators, providers, insurers, employers, and patients themselves—have roles to play in creating real... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
them. Ellevation serves a third of English learners in the United States, and has plans to reach 70% within the next five years. While I sort of stumbled into EdTech, as a former English learner, this role perfectly marries my personal... View Details
- Profile
Kiran Gandhi
sexuality in pop culture. Many of my own understandings of gender roles were constructed by pop culture when I was a child. For example, I remember wondering why female characters had to be rescued all the time. Why can’t Jasmine be the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
powerful. Showroom Experience. Creating a showroom environment will likely have a significant role in the strategy of mass retailers and will be critical to the survival of category killers. The success of Apple's high-design, high-touch... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
a more resource-intensive field experiment,” Coffman says. “Plus, students are a nice population for an experiment like this because many of them will go on to have important leadership roles and make important leadership decisions.” In... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
still considered part of the Class of 1978. Dolan acknowledges that his circumstances are unusual, and even admits he had a few reservations about taking over the role of club president. “I was concerned,” he reflects, “that our graduates... View Details