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  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

curve,” for example, made employees in the top 20 percent of performance eligible for raises and promotions, while those in the bottom 10 percent risked being demoted or fired. Industries such as investment... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

company's level of productivity (number of barrels), efficiency (cost per barrel), and reliability (production "up" time) came to exceed the industry's previous benchmark. Two of the company's newer platforms had been designed from the start to reflect the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

enterprise systems can be governed by a few structures, shown in Figure 2: Top management group; Board of directors or board of advisors; Family assembly and/or family council, and; Shareholders meeting and/or shareholder council. Figure... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Cost of Friendship

By: Paul A. Gompers, Yuhai Xuan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Performance; Personal Characteristics
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Benson P. Shapiro

    Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; banking; beauty products; brokerage; chemical; computer; consulting; e-commerce industry; electrical equipment; electronics; financial services; food; high technology; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; metals; plastics; printing; professional services; software; steel; telecommunications; wholesale
    • Web

    Executive Education - Global

    comprehensive leadership programs that prepare you to assume greater responsibility. Designed for individuals at all levels—from top executives and general managers to up-and-coming leaders and business owners—each intensive program... View Details
    • 04 May 2021
    • Book

    Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

    store.” Instead, the sales associates—nicknamed “blue shirts” after Best Buy’s trademark royal-blue collared shirts—brought the injured T. rex to a service counter and performed “surgery” on the toy as they surreptitiously traded it out... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
    • 03 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3, 2009

    This sector has been dominated both in size and performance by the endowments of elite universities such as the Ivy League schools. The top 20 endowments grew more than 9% annually on a real basis between... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Mar 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    design can be changed faster and mandated more easily by top leadership. As a result, an organization called on to change rapidly, because of an external crisis, is likely to adjust its design first and then act to bring its identity into... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    What Makes a Good Leader

    prices would plummet, their competitors would be all over them, and employees would be jumping ship. But even if you can't be absolutely open with everyone, leaders have to confront their companies' problems and, of course, share them with View Details
    Keywords: Management
    • Web

    Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    explore... Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun 2024 Annabelle Cloutier is Head of Strategy, Communications and Corporate Governance at Canada’s Natio... DNPIV Perspectives: Bonnie Henderson,... View Details
    • 24 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 24

    While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk envisionment, aiming to provide View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

    outcomes have changed a lot. A couple things have happened. There's been a lot more technology that's been introduced to the sport from a performance standpoint. And those of you that watch the game, things like StatCast, which now shows... View Details
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to competition. General Electric, for example, was at risk of losing many of its top customers to... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

    good weather day.” The researchers found that the top performers (those who completed the task the fastest and the most accurately) were the rainy-day control group participants, who had seen neither the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 2

    disclosures, performance evaluations, self-regulation, participation, and adaptive learning. Nonprofit leaders must adapt any such mechanisms to suit their organization-be it a membership-based organization, a service-delivery nonprofit,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Dec 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

    tier empowers leaders to engage in critical conversations and develop their direct reports. K: Knowledge. The top tier of the Framework considers a leader’s knowledge. Knowledge includes the leader’s technical training, socialization, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
    • 05 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 5

    the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne