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Asia Pacific - Global

children throughout Southeast Asia with nutrient-rich treats, received the Best Investment Award and will represent APAC at the Global Finale. Turmerik and VoxPop AI were honored with the Best Innovation and Best Social Impact Awards,... View Details

2010
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Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir

We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives

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02 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

graduated. “Here’s the good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

up for coding or data analytics classes to acquire expertise but, more important, to show their teams that they too must become life-long technology learners. 4. Be courageous Leaders need to learn to experiment, iterate, and pivot... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

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Podcast - Business & Environment

to decarbonize. We’ll also talk about his new book The Profiteers, where he discusses the need to hold companies accountable for the environmental and social externalities associated with their operations and supply chains, and he... View Details

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Fatima Albassam

realized that this is what I want to do the rest of my life, run a social business,” says Fatima. “But I felt that the nonprofits I was working with were limiting their impact because of a lack of management and finance skills.” A... View Details

18 Oct 2023
News

Spreading the Words

into the hands of its customers. His solution—electronic ticketing and online self-booking—came through the transformative power of digital technology. “Before long you start to think, What about worldwide impact? What about social... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

and loved reading, often devouring two books a week. He was a responsible child who eagerly volunteered for the school’s safety patrol to guide young students across the street. But Miller’s surroundings would change for the worse—and so would his attitude. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

June 2001 (Revised June 2001)
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Student Who Was Missing-in-Action, The

Assistant Professor Sam Benson was about to end the class session portion of his course with only student projects remaining. Then, he received a phone call from a student, George McHenry, who had missed 11 of 20 sessions. McHenry wanted to know what he needed to do to... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Higher Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Education Industry

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

The application deadline is January 31, 2025. *This year, preference for admission will be given to graduates from the MBA classes of 2024 and 2025. Videos 29 MAR 2023 Harvard Business School The Blavatnik Fellowship: A Lifelong Community... View Details

10 Jan 2018
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8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

underlying theoretical concept to every case (whether that’s in finance, accounting, operations management or leadership), the focus of the class discussion is on the application of the concept in practical situations. Many of us find... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Recruiting

Employment Data Entrepreneurship Employment Data Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Class of 2024 Career Data Internship Data Joining a Start-up A start-up is defined here as an organization that is still private and 10 years of age or... View Details

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

I’ll think, what commercial IP products could a project generate? It's a hybrid business-creative Mad Libs I love. What was your favorite class at HBS? A three-way tie between Arts & Cultural Entrepreneurship, Brand Strategy, and The... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

June 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Education technology (edtech) company TagHive, founded in 2017, used a direct sales team and third-party distributors to sell its Class Saathi hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly... View Details

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

capacity. In an unanticipated finding, however, our analysis raises the possibility that the company's most prolific publishers begin to migrate to the periphery of the intra-firm social network, which may occur because these individuals'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

During Course Activities The purpose of this policy is to clarify the School’s position on capturing (e.g., photography, audio, video, live streaming and other formats) and/or disseminating (e.g., via the media or use of social media)... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

highly competitive, at 13 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2022 were awarded to 817 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,794. MBA CLASS OF 2023 Students 1,013 Applications 9,773 Acceptance Rate... View Details

08 May 2025
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Ramesh Johari, Stanford

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

phenomenon is enabling business leaders to regain the trust and credibility they have lost over the last ten years. That's why social networking is the most important business development of the year. William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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