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- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
a tool . The problem is not the tool, but the user if the company were better run, you wouldn't need to bribe people to stay (but) there are times when the retention bonus is appropriate, such as when a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
day, even counting graduates from other business schools, if you produce 2,000 to 3,000 MBAs a year to work in a sector with more than 1.4 million nonprofits, it’s just a drop in the bucket. There are huge salary discrepancies View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
consequences. As another example, people sometimes feel that they are going after some tangible reward that's being offered to them for their work, or maybe even some intangible reward like recognition. Or... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
suspect, over these requirements to take English lessons, go where assigned to live, and mandatory job placement,” Anne writes. Writing from Germany, Andreas Schulz reminded us that, “The huge number of refugees is only admitted View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
according to a new HBS study. “Alignable’s June survey suggested that PPP applications from minority-owned businesses were twice as likely to be rejected.” While the loans helped many businesses get through temporary shutdowns, critics... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
almost resigned as CEO of GE. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I want to talk about an episode in 2009. This is in the wake of the financial crisis and you guys had just made a dramatic cut to the dividend. View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
which is pathetic.” But as employment numbers rebound, the shecession highlights more perennial, far-reaching factors than those found in the pandemic’s early months, says Manisha Thakor (MBA 1997). One is the ever-present gender View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
process questions that will help you identify the normal behaviors for particular jobs and what employees should and shouldn't be doing on their systems (such as sharing passwords). Because even the best... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
continue to be grateful to my teachers, especially Ben Shapiro, Jack Gabarro, and Steve Wheelwright. I’ve actually accused Steve of being an “intellectual terrorist” because he planted ideas in my head 25 years ago that are still setting off insights View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
who shave off what is considered excess pay for their efforts can destabilize private equity firms. Source: Nic McPhee (CC 2.0) “Short-term greediness is affecting the long-term stability and continuity of the firm,” Ivashina says. “If... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
and serves as co-chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. "For many firms, it's possible to act sustainably and make money at the same time” In her working paper Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
stock does not go up as quickly. . . . But it doesn't go back down as quickly later, either." Damon Leavell takes a different tack,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
that means is that despite the enormous costs—both financial and political—of setting up these exchanges, fewer than 10 percent of uninsured people in the US have so far been insured as a result. “This is not like Field of Dreams, where... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
work may not be getting commensurate rewards for the efforts they're putting in. One of the things we're trying to reflect in the book is that there's a healthy skirmish going on among directors themselves View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna