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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
during this interim period of upskilling, and the incentive and reward system should be adjusted to allow current employees to go through this U-curve of performance. A final... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
bubble has burst: no longer obsessed with the need for larger-than-life leaders and their grand strategies, we can now focus on a quieter, more evolutionary approach to change, one that relies on employee View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
performance" losing its allure? What do you think? To Read More: Mihir Desai, The Incentive Bubble, Harvard Business Review, March, 2012. Mihir Desai, Compensation Practices and Incentives, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
Cover image features Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO, and Taryn Stamper (MBA 2023), High Touch Advisor, of Celeste. BEI is delighted to bring you this mini-series on HBS alumni tackling problems related to water... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay (both MBA 1987) In the mid-1980s, Jeffrey Jay (MBA 1987) had set his sights on academic medicine, having earned his MD from Boston University. A dramatically changing health care landscape View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
with your employees and create processes and standards internally to ensure your products or services are up to standard.” Their model for doing this consists of four elements: Competence: Is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
more effective negotiator, and motivating great work from others. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 10 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2010. Now... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
long-term interests with short-term pulls, etc. One of the most unexplored areas, which we are only now beginning to be able to measure, is the degree to which people are motivated by the "aerial coin of praise" View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
"enthusiasm, technological wizardry, and unfettered thinking of the younger generations" may be just the tonic your company needs, so it would make sense to adopt the incentives View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
the number of employees had grown to 140. Sityodtong then moved to New York City, where he bought his mother an apartment and launched a career on Wall Street as a hedge fund manager. Having enough money to take care of his family had... View Details
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Prineeta Kulkarni
an Indian pharma, Cipla, that was specifically "focused on access and affordability," says Prineeta. Through her work on the acquisitions team, Prineeta helped Cipla expand access to inexpensive HIV medicine to more countries in... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
because they've got limited resources and limited time." It's an interesting dynamic, said Corey, but well worth the effort to find the right incubator, one where the arrangement is viewed as a partnership, not just an investment.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
business schedule and our middle-aged lack of energy. It's very rewarding." What is the most important thing you've learned about business since leaving HBS? Simple - people. As you rise, you have to View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subsidiary in an international market. These sorts of assignments, almost by definition, require individuals to establish direction, communicate that direction (vision and strategies) to diverse stakeholders, View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
organization. Highlights Setting Direction Motivating Others Through a Setback Show Hide Details Concepts Setting Direction Communicating Direction Types of Communication Featured Exercises Video upload: Record yourself communicating... View Details