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- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- June 2011
- Article
The Paradox of Excellence
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Sara DeLong
Why is it that so many smart, ambitious professionals are less productive and satisfied than they could be? We argue that it's often because they're afraid to demonstrate any sign of weakness. They're reluctant to ask important questions or try new... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Innovation and Invention; Strength and Weakness; Performance Productivity; Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Satisfaction
DeLong, Thomas J., and Sara DeLong. "The Paradox of Excellence." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011).
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
engaged leader," he says, "out there with your people all time, spending time with both employees and customers." When Phanstiel took the reins of PacifiCare, he inherited a slow-growth company in a slow-growth industry.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020
motivates employees and how that can be communicated in your recruiting process. Learn more strategies to “get to yes” based on a recent HBS research study focused on what matters most to students when... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
Publications August 2013 PLoS ONE Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In three field studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they must appear decisive and... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2007
- Article
Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D
By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf
Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Patents; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Lerner, Josh, and Julie Wulf. "Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D." Review of Economics and Statistics 89, no. 4 (November 2007): 634–644.
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
written about the caregiving roles of employees and strengthening the education-to-work pipeline. The following is a transcript of questions posed by Instagram users and Fuller’s answers: Should we be worried about the current “worker... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
load. And as a result you carry a very high cost." Michelin-one-star-rated restaurants in Europe have an average of 36 employees on the payroll, according to the case. D'O keeps a lean crew of 14 by multitasking. Oldani does not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in all areas? A: Frei: Even superstar managers would probably admit to being... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Employee theft and fraud: $600 billion. "The costs to business and society are striking," she said. Gino, an associate professor and behavioral economist at HBS, studies ethical decision making and the psychology of moral... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
2020. Forget Cash: There are Better Ways to Motivate EmployeesIn today's tight job market, employers must focus on how to attract and keep top talent. Giving away stacks of money may not always be the best incentive. How Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne