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- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- News
Thanks for the Memories
is a real trip down memory lane, with hundreds of photos divided into two dozen categories and also accessible by year. The Timeline is a truly remarkable feat of interactive programming. Start with 1908, when the School was founded, and browse through key events right... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
finding plenty of ways that companies frustrate their customers. These days, health care, airlines, and telecommunications, to name a few, are sectors that can drive consumers up the wall. Are you, valued customer, treated well, or at... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
complementary channels has opened up possibilities that would not have been imaginable with the more traditional, siloed approach. JA: I would give the example of Glossier, which is a digitally native, direct-to-consumer cosmetics... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
dire implications for the world We need to dramatically accelerate deployment of capital into sustainable infrastructure projects.” – Amanda Li (MBA 2018), COO and co-founder of Banyan Infrastructure Amanda Li grew up fascinated with the... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Sasson
specifications.” Seeking more influence on the customer-facing part of the product, Jeremy moved from software development into product management at DocuSign, participating in a product rebranding for the Brazilian market. “The Brazilian... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teamed up with Gerardo Perez-Cavazos at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Caspar David Peter at the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
one wonders what the sign, carefully held up by Collins, was for. It reads, “Scholars under the Baker Foundation,” with the words “Non Hokum sed but Veritas” circling a shovel. If they’re not suffering a fit of existential ennui, this may... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to remedy what the school viewed as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education leaders, a report was issued that highlighted three kinds of actions where business "champions," working alongside educators, could most add value: advocating policies that enable education innovation; scaling up innovations... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
road would pick up his or her office mail (and any snail-mailed thank-you notes) in a timely fashion. Others wondered at her advice to mention personal interests that had come up in conversation (maybe the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
near-failure. Other keynotes included David P. Perry's "The Ups and Downs of the Modern Entrepreneur." Perry (MBA '97) is the founder of the B2B marketplace Chemdex (which recently closed its doors) and CEO of its parent company, Ventro... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So it was a crisis every day. And I ended View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
Summing Up "Good attitudes supercharge organizational performance beyond what the skill/talent level would indicate," according to Perry Miles. "Attitude is one of the strongest determinants of performance," added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic theories to understand... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details