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- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
Sometimes inspiration does come from the likeliest places. For Rahil Mehrotra, MBA 2018, it emerged from a combination of HBS courses and experiences: The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course, the winter break Startup Boot Camp program,...
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Entrepreneurship
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Information" (CWCI). The instructions that follow use datasets from three of the cases in the course: "Slots, Tables, and All That Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel," HBS No. 106-029;...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
with engineering on custom applications, and up-selling or cross-selling additional services. Allocation of sales talent should change. Focus on behaviors in selection. In many firms, this means upgrading assessment skills. View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- Spring 2023
- Article
Incentive Contract Design and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field
By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin
This study examines how the design of incentive contracts for tasks defined as workers’ official responsibilities (i.e., standard tasks) influences workers’ propensity to engage in employee-initiated innovation (EII). EII corresponds to innovation activities that are...
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Employee-initiated Innovation;
Contract Design;
Rank-and-file;
Extra-role Behaviors;
Compensation and Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives;
Innovation and Management
Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin. "Incentive Contract Design and Employee-Initiated Innovation: Evidence from the Field." Contemporary Accounting Research 40, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 292–323.
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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. Loan Assistance The Program supports graduates pursuing career paths in nonprofit, public sector organizations,...
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Team - Entrepreneurship
Emily Cronin, Associate Director LAURIE BISHOP, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR MARY ROSE SAINT-CYR, PROGRAM COORDINATOR Ben McLarey, Community Manager VIRGINIA SHANNON, SPECIAL PROJECTS New Venture Competition A year long entrepreneurial journey that...
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Our Team - Impact Investments
research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets. His recent research focuses on...
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- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management...
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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Finding Talent Opportunities
career with a passion for advertising, but during undergraduate internships, his focus shifted to product management, where he found broader creative and strategic challenges. At HBS, he sharpened his decision-making skills and learned to...
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
Narayandas Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : business marketing , customer focus , customer profitability analysis , customer relationship management , customer...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
What if more managers at big corporations channeled some of the same magic that helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lead their startups to great success? Large companies are actually fertile ground for innovation;...
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by Lane Lambert
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Interviews - Recruiting
Hire Talent Interviews Hire Talent Interviews HBS-Coordinated Interviews Let HBS manage your first-round interview logistics so you can focus on what matters: finding the right candidate for your position....
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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior,...
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- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry
By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent...
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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
can we ensure that HBS’s MBA Program offers the best management education possible for future leaders in business and society?” In an ongoing effort to address these questions, the School launched the Required Curriculum (RC) Renewal...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- February 2000 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
CNET 2000
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
CNET's managers explain the strategic analysis that led to their decision to increase their annual marketing budget from $1 million to $100 million. CNET is an online information intermediary that helps consumers make purchase decisions about PC hardware and software,...
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Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Strategy;
Decisions;
Growth and Development;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business Divisions;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Consumer Behavior;
Online Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Pauline M Fischer. "CNET 2000." Harvard Business School Case 800-284, February 2000. (Revised April 2001.)
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Leadership Transition for External Relations
have been integral to realizing our mission. We thank her for leaving ER in a position of such remarkable strength. Until the end of the academic year, Janet has agreed to serve as a Senior Advisor, and will focus on several development...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
comes to bear only when there is a mutual need to focus on joint objectives" This process of open communication encourages a great degree of buyer/seller cooperation and coordination, and literally a much broader agreement. More...
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