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- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
smaller companies who are used to accountability." Stever Robbins commented, "Why do we even spend our time debating whether a Fortune 500 CEO is 'worth it'? Why, instead, don't we seek to hire people who are so motivated to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
motivate people to take action-different actions, but at least action. Are You A Pessimist? If you're a pessimist, you tend to focus on safety and security. Pessimism drives you to seek View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
critical data point and a unique leg up in thinking about the issue. CTrip is one of many companies using experiments to guide decisions, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca. “Executives need to understand when... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
(in a pilot test) and experimental manipulations (Experiments 1, 2a, and 2b), we found that an essentialist mind-set is indeed hazardous for creativity, with the relationship mediated by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
opportunities, and the investor can channel the profits to other productive uses. In this sense, making an investment rather than a grant can help a firm more effectively combine its profit and mission View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
better off providing moderate levels of resources—not too much and not too little—to research teams. "If the budget is too small, there is little possibility of creating new products," says Ahuja. "But if it's too high,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
energy conservation alone. And this is all in a world in which we are spending a ridiculously small amount of money on clean energy research, and the private sector has only minimal View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
staff member receive credit for good ideas not only makes the employee feel valued and motivates him or her to come up with better ideas in the future, but also makes the leader look good. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
origin and mission of the Social Enterprise Initiative? James Austin: When we began the Social Enterprise Initiative, the opportunity that motivated us was to mobilize the talent View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
motivate a change? What are the goals and objectives of the change, and how will it be organized? How will performance be measured against those objectives? What technology... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
some of the costs and labor of low-orbit efforts so it could once again afford to dream big. Enter Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. “We often think of business as motivated by... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
patent provides strong protection. For writers, a complete screenplay would better ensure copyright protection because the plot, dialogue, and characters are much better defined. In addition, “the threat of selling the idea to the buyer’s... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
than 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced the workers’ “inner work lives,” defined by the researchers as “the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
associates and partners to their firms. How new fee structures have shifted firms’ priorities The prioritization of growth has also led to record increases in the use of performance-based fees tied to client-achieved outcomes. While... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
doing this.’ But then you can get really inefficient allocation of capital, and that means we solve the problem slower.” Rather than exclusionary policies and divestiture campaigns View Details