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  • 12 Aug 2010
  • News

You Can’t Take It with You

his life “as a case study of sorts.” To the question of career success, Christensen cites psychologist Frederick Herzberg, who asserted that “the powerful motivator in our lives isn’t money; it’s the opportunity to learn, grow in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 05 Apr 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

and motivate adroitly Both must be brave enough to make themselves vulnerable and admit mistakes.” "Just how extensive is this overlap between good leaders and teachers?" The question this raised for me was: Just how extensive is this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

equity firms? How might we design an on-ramp for people looking to make career changes – people that could very well expand our capacity and understanding of our work? We are not at a loss for motivation and inspiration. “The more you... View Details
  • March 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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  • March 1987 (Revised October 1993)
  • Case

Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program

By: W. Earl Sasser
In recent years, Au Bon Pain (ABP), a chain of upscale French bakeries/sandwich cafes based in Boston, confronted a set of human resource problems endemic to the fast food industry (i.e., a labor shortage which made it difficult to attract and maintain quality crew... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Managerial Roles; Retention; Employees; Performance Improvement; Recruitment; Problems and Challenges; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Boston
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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Five Bright Ideas

students "get it." Bistany decries four "myths" in education: The smaller the class size, the better (when what matters is the right structure for teaching and assessing a concept effectively); The profit motive will undermine educational... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Shantanu Rege

on familiar economic issues. "In a textbook, inflation is just a number. But when you have colleagues who've lived through it, you understand its real impact on life, families, and politics. You learn about what it means and how people live through it."... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

crowd” (or, according to organizational theory, engage in “mimetic isomorphism”). As cliché as it may sound, sometimes the path least traveled is best. Figure out what motivates you and makes you happy. Try as best you... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

New Releases

the social environment on creative motivation and behavior in a variety of contexts, including the organization. From an ongoing multiyear research project into the nature of creativity and how social factors influence its manifestations,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

transition process of passing responsibilities for SPI's primary operations to vice president and general manager Dean Urmston, a veteran of the seed industry who is based in Bakersfield, California. What motivates this compassionate man?... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

much of the education sector, already consisted of women, and their clients were also primarily women. The idea of being represented in the company’s leadership was attractive. The second step was building a pipeline within the company. “You need to look for talented,... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

Economics Payout Policy By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin C. Schmalz Abstract—We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

Keywords: by Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton; Service
  • April 2009
  • Case

Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney
Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Standards; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Idaho; Utah
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Motivation and Incentives; Resignation and Termination; Communication; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry
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  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

effect. To discern whether status serves as a signal of quality under uncertainty or satisfies the motive of conspicuous consumption, I study a period of time during which the uncertainty about quality has arguably declined. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

Republicans can make their case that this tax plan represents progress based not on unrealistic optimism but on sincere beliefs about the proper role of government. Democrats can challenge them not by issuing doomsday projections or questioning their View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

affected by how similar (in both size and valence) those causes were to event consequences. Additional experiments further suggested that this "consequence-cause matching" arises because people are motivated to see the world as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne