Peers - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

according to Larkin's 2009 paper "Paying $30,000 for a Gold Star: An Empirical Investigation into the Value of Peer Recognition to Software Salespeople." The paper describes a field study at a large enterprise software firm, where... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

whole team setting and meeting a range of performance benchmarks over a period of time," write Hope and Fraser. "Performance is then evaluated by a peer review group (using relative measures) with the benefit of hindsight."... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

both of which helped signal how much effort individuals were putting into their job. They also studied compensation at all levels, including senior executives. Workers were surveyed on how much they thought, on average, peers and managers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

it with their employees. In the study’s most disturbing finding, employee wages actually dropped an average of 2 percent (again relative to peer firms) in the two years following the buyout. “It seems essentially all of the pie is going... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

book Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game. In fact, venture-minded managers in big corporations often have the tools and infrastructure to become more successful than their peers at startups, say... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

report to you. But unless you manage the context in which your team resides, there's no way that your team can be successful. So you have to understand the political dynamics, you have to understand how to build a network with peers and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

asynchronous and virtual interactions can be influenced by peer training relationships, drawing “tangible benefits for patients many years later,” suggesting such relationships continue to pay off for a long time, the authors write.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

certain things unsaid. Sometimes the advice-seeker is leaving out key pieces of information inadvertently or because of discomfort with his contribution to the problem. "If someone says I have interpersonal issues at work and mentions a lot about View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2008
Chapter

Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

Citation

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Huang: "I would talk to them about their behaviors to find out if they are actually aware of it I would also make peer appraisal part of their year end bonus." Gerald Nanninga commented that "perhaps you are giving them the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

legal system is predicated on a jury of our peers deciding a case based on their own independent opinions, not on their warm feelings from the advertisement they saw on their way to the courthouse. To prevent unfair persuasion, Cohen... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

should come back to office. My ongoing research with the all-remote firm Zapier suggests that while workers can work-from-anywhere, temporarily colocating with peers a few times a year (in the case of Zapier at a retreat), strengthens... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

was about its impact on “young employees and their training/development how can we replace small things you pick up on from more experienced peers that are so impactful to your professional development?” Kennedy continued: “I’d rather we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

throughout an organization. As CEO, for example, he shared his 360-degree performance evaluation from peers and subordinates with HCL’s 50,000 employees as part of what he called “reverse accountability.” Ray Dalio, founder and head of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

2016.) “We tend to study innovation in terms of inputs like R&D spending or outcomes like patents,” says Gross, “but creativity is really about what happens in between. It’s really about this process of exploring new and untested ideas.” View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

each individual. It is uneven and unstable; it's never frozen at a moment in time. It is both rational and emotional. In the interviews they have conducted so far with successful people—those deemed by their peers to be in the top of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

hierarchy, based on the concept of social relativity, when individuals wonder how they compare to their peers. Even satisfied people get antsy when they see their peers moving forward. People wonder, "Am I in or am I out?"—... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

It’s simple: They create the most value, says Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. In almost every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins. They take share by building on proven... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

every interaction, shut down creativity, and undermine productivity. Take the case of Jeff, a team leader at a Fortune 100 company who was working on a large, long-term, high-pressure project. Each Tuesday, Jeff and his peers had a... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

firm, since about 75 percent of the interns typically accept offers to join the company. But the firm’s leadership wondered if remote work would change all of that. Would the interns be able to build ties with their peers and supervisors?... View Details