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- July 2010
- Article
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual will...
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Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Perception;
Opportunities;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sorensen. "Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship." Management Science 56, no. 7 (July 2010): 1116–1126.
- 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...
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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.)
- March 2002
- Case
Akamai's Underwater Options (B): The Decision
By: Brian J. Hall, Houston Lane and Jonathan Lim
Supplements the (A) case.
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Hall, Brian J., Houston Lane, and Jonathan Lim. "Akamai's Underwater Options (B): The Decision." Harvard Business School Case 902-195, March 2002.
- 20 Aug 2015
- News
Note to Amazon: Run More Tests on Workplace Practices
- 29 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction
- September 2005 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur...(A)
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In the spring of 2005, an exhausted Philip McCrea, president and CEO of software development company VitesseLearning, reflects on the demands of his successful start-up and his desire to be closer to his growing family. Profiles the youth, career, family life,...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Family and Family Relationships;
Opportunities;
Motivation and Incentives
George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur...(A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-018, September 2005. (Revised August 2008.)
- January 1994
- Case
ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation
By: D. Quinn Mills, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson and Richard C. Wei
In the midst of dramatic changes in the information systems industry and declining profits at the ABC Co., the vice president in charge of the sales and service division, Jeff, and his managers attempt to transform their division. The transformation gets off to a good...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Transformation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Resignation and Termination;
Communication;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, Brock W. Orwig, Janet M. Pumo, Todd C. Stilson, and Richard C. Wei. "ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 494-075, January 1994.
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus alternatives,” the paper states. The role of...
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- 2018
- Working Paper
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
By: Jennifer M. Logg, Uriel Haran and Don A. Moore
Are overconfident beliefs driven by the motivation to view oneself positively? We test the relationship between motivation and overconfidence using two distinct, but often conflated, measures: better-than-average (BTA) beliefs and overplacement. Our results suggest...
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Self-perception;
Overconfidence;
Motivation;
Better-Than-Average Effect;
Specifically;
Personal Characteristics;
Perception;
Motivation and Incentives;
Cognition and Thinking
Logg, Jennifer M., Uriel Haran, and Don A. Moore. "Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-099, April 2018.
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence — from Habitat for Humanity to...
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- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
solve them. As a result, we need to build pathways to align resources more effectively and achieve more just outcomes. All this can be facilitated by those who can work at the intersection of these sectors and are able to navigate and align View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
not. Often the critical success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are changing the status quo and forcing managers to consider new way to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure...
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Nancy Miller
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
accompanies the announcement of their largesse. There is little or no incentive to stay involved or to take responsibility for seeing that the contribution is used to reach a goal. However well meaning, many businesses treat the social...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to...
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- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in free-trade zones to build linkages with the local economy. Companies must...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the...
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Jill Radsken
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial View Details
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by Julia Hanna