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- 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT, 30 Apr 2019
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HBS Online Scaling Ventures
Scaling Ventures is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Program Dates: April 30, 2019 - June 18, 2019 (Every Tuesday from... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
world of irrationality. Much of traditional economics becomes outmoded when complex relationships based on often counter-intuitive behaviors are taken into account. Instead of a management philosophy centered around the manager as the play-caller, assigning tasks View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
between April 2003 and March 2004. The firm's relative performance incentive scheme rewards a worker for outperforming her co-workers. We find that a worker does not act on the monetary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
believes merchants who consider adopting Apple Pay will naturally wonder: What do we get out of this? And they will specifically want to know if they will be asked to pay higher fees than credit card companies are charging?... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
characterize profits to tax authorities and capital markets separately). There is also much anecdotal evidence on the profusion of tax shelters and compensation incentives for... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
U.S. Senator) Tom Coburn (R-OK) argue against a government-run public market for health insurance. Reform must include incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, which only a private market could... View Details
- 25 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
An Inside Look at the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - Facebook Live
Harathi and Emily Batt. They discuss the motivations for pursuing the MS/MBA program, the joint cohort and section experience, how the curriculum View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson
agenda but many don’t realize it. Students want to: 1) perform well in class 2) conduct endless research and create several excel sheets to determine what the next best step is for their career, and 3) work... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models suggest that boards design View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE
2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth... View Details
- Profile
Tiffany Niver
what is important to me, but also how I work best, what motivates me, and how I can thrive in a variety of settings. More immediately, HBS provided me a platform through which I could switch careers out of... View Details
- Career Coach
Mo Fong
understand their truly motivations and their values as guiding principles on how to chart their career and life ambitions. She is passionate about helping students chart their... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Case 609-080 At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2010
- Teaching Note
Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer? (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris
Teaching Note for 211-011. View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
patent holder are zero, and an "aggressive" form where they are strictly positive. Even though the patentee's profits are protected with the lost profits damage measure, innovation incentives are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne