Filter Results
:
(2,765)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,765)
- People (5)
- News (605)
- Research (1,611)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (767)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,765)
- People (5)
- News (605)
- Research (1,611)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (767)
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and to see how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this,” said Senior Lecturer Dan Isenberg, who helped organize the visits to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. The...
View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
used for. So I decided to throw a summit on Necker Island and got a bunch of people together so they could communicate in person. And I divided up a bunch of really cool developers and thought leaders into little groups and I gave them...
View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
revenue for economic assistance and conversion to cleaner energy. While the group hasn’t attached an exact figure to the amount of the tax, they estimate that it should start between $30 and $40 per ton, an amount that reflects the View Details
Keywords:
Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a...
View Details
- December 2008
- Background Note
Incentives in the NFL (Abridged)
By: Brian J. Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk, Jonathan Paul Lim, Sara del Nido and Katherine Dowd
This 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...
View Details
Keywords:
Compensation and Benefits;
Wages;
Groups and Teams;
Conflict of Interests;
Motivation and Incentives;
Sports Industry;
United States
Hall, Brian J., Andrew Wasynczuk, Jonathan Paul Lim, Sara del Nido, and Katherine Dowd. "Incentives in the NFL (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Background Note 909-029, December 2008.
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
and facilitator training. Flora passionately advocates for the benefits of experiential learning. She has designed, directed, and staffed many experiential conferences, simulations, and retreats for executives on the dynamics of organizational life using View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
is by actions and words from senior leadership of the companies I've worked for.” Examples included the CEO of one company attending a retreat for the Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) and the CEO of another company participating in a...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
View Details
- July 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Ottawa Voyageurs, The
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Scott Baldwin, Chris Strong, Andrew Feng, Eliza Moody and David Ager
Manuel Tertuliano, head coach of a professional soccer club, must make some difficult decisions about the compensation of six of his players. Specifically, he must decide how to allocate $850,000 among these six players in a way that will benefit his team, which has...
View Details
Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Compensation and Benefits;
Performance;
Motivation and Incentives;
Sports;
Groups and Teams;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Canada
DeLong, Thomas J., Scott Baldwin, Chris Strong, Andrew Feng, Eliza Moody, and David Ager. "Ottawa Voyageurs, The." Harvard Business School Case 404-023, July 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- Article
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton and Jordi Quoidbach
In three field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and teammates with prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier...
View Details
Keywords:
Satisfaction;
Groups and Teams;
Performance;
Compensation and Benefits;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Banking Industry;
Sports Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Canada;
Belgium;
Australia
Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton, and Jordi Quoidbach. "Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance." PLoS ONE 8, no. 9 (September 2013): 1–8.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Jordi Quoidbach
In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and teammates with prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier...
View Details
Keywords:
Satisfaction;
Groups and Teams;
Performance;
Compensation and Benefits;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Banking Industry;
Sports Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Canada;
Belgium;
Australia
Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Jordi Quoidbach. "Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-095, May 2013.
- January 2009
- Article
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership...
View Details
Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Performance Improvement;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Management Science 55, no. 1 (January 2009): 85–100.
- June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Teaching Note
Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together
By: Boris Groysberg, Tricia Gregg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-048.
View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
launched programs to sell MedKaz to each prospective market segment—to consumers and groups with specific healthcare needs, to corporations that can offer MedKaz as an employee wellness benefit, and to such government entities as the...
View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape...
View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
in business in any event, were socialized in corporate ethics courses with the rest of the world's best and brightest?" Others objected to the assumption that teaching values to adults is difficult at best and impossible at worst....
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects...
View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of...
View Details
Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
Identity;
Cooperation
Edmondson, Amy C., Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail. "Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition." In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311–332. Psychology Press, 2009.
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to deliver the credits. Learn More...
View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
perspective over the last 30 years, they write, with these changes often occurring in tandem with broader developments in psychology and in society as a whole. Most recently, analysis has begun to look at social or personal factors...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace