Financial Rewards - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

differentially true for groups that are underrepresented in our applicant pool—those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, underrepresented minorities, and women. This is one reason why we have a focus on financial accessibility and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Daniel Schachne

finds most rewarding about HBS. ""Here I am, without any financial background, but there are so many classmates willing to sit with me and explain the concepts," he says. "It's a truly... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

still worth my time? But while much is changing in business, a lot of the challenges still involve basic block-and-tackle work around product development, sales, and distribution. Also of major importance: hiring, training, motivating, and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

horizons, risks, and norms. New management skills, new organizational forms, new institutional and financial arrangements, and a new breed of leadership are all essential.” Adds Pisano, whose case “The Science Economy: Creating Leaders... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers—and far too little on the information that really... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

enter less financially rewarding fields can apply for a variety of loan-assistance and fellowship programs. Global Research The Global Initiative, headquartered in Greenhill House, helps faculty develop... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

a large margin, and a non-financial reward, respectively. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small companies to compete... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Oct 2002
News

Steven C. Watson

life.” Watson achieved financial independence with the sale of his first company in 1988. “It was a milestone,” he admits, “but I found myself asking, ‘So what?'” The question led Watson, who is divorced and has no children, to reexamine... View Details

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

powerful in the world's great capitals, Wolfensohn might nonetheless rank his interactions with village chiefs and local leaders as among the most rewarding of his career. For even as he enjoyed a remarkable career in the private sector,... View Details

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Andreas Jaegle

London, which proved to be an awkward fit, then found a more rewarding environment with McKinsey in Munich. “With investment banking, you look at operations from a distance,” Andreas says. “I wanted to get into the reality of actual... View Details

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Student Association | MBA

Student Association The Student Association (SA) is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty and administration. Its goal is to represent the student body in making the HBS experience as rewarding and enjoyable as... View Details

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

First, Study 1 shows that chronic matchmaking is associated with higher well-being. Studies 2 and 3 show that matching others on the basis of how well they will get along leads to a greater increase in happiness and is more intrinsically View Details