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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
“Performer” mind-set. Performers can excel in well-defined areas and are rewarded by big companies, but Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
told a specific goal," says Chung, noting that 80 percent of firms in the United States use some type of bonus to reward employees. The field experiment spanned six months in the second half of 2013, and... View Details
- March 2025
- Article
Optimal Illiquidity
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty.... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Optimal Illiquidity." Art. 103996. Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025).
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeb (McGraw-Hill Education) This book offers the latest techniques for knowing customers’ desires View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
Can business leaders harness the star power of celebrities? It might depend on their jawline. A recent study parses 12,000 faces for attributes linked to charisma and proposes a framework to figure out who has it View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 24 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys
exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience whether you are a winner of prizes or if you are simply taking advantage of the learning and can apply it later in your career.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By:... View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
about and weighs the past and future. In some places, tips are provided not so much to reward good service but to encourage good service in the future—a perception that brings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
(certain legal aspects of developing, rewarding and retaining employees, including non-competition agreements, assignments of rights, and employment litigation); View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many. That inflicts a huge time penalty on workers, since start-stop-restart cycles are inefficient. Urgent and important things... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
What Makes Us Tick? Insights From The 2018 Behavioral Summit
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
comparison between motherhood and entrepreneurship been so poignant for me? For starters, because they are two of the hardest things in life but also the most rewarding (for me motherhood takes the cake but... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure costs over the full care cycle, and then identify cost savings while maintaining quality of care Facilitate process improvements identified through the TDABC analysis Develop... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
posting to Senegal. Hunt had hoped to work with entrepreneurs, but was instead assigned to a midwifery program. “It was overwhelming and humbling,” she says. “But it was also so rewarding to help people when... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
tell us. Inclusion is related to such things as “voice”—the belief by workers that they are heard—as well as recognition and equal opportunity in rewards and promotions. Harder... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges
of tomorrow's workforce, they said. For companies that are global today, it is not effective to manage workers the same in all countries. Managers need to understand cultural differences and adjust their styles, communications, View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas