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  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT, 30 Apr 2019
  • HBS Online

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
  • September 1998 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Discovery Health (A)

A South African health insurance company undertakes a redesign of its prescription drug coverage policy in light of its experiences with Prozac. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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Ralph Johnson

in Chicago on a variety of projects. I worked on a youth mentoring program to combat violence. I was part of a team figuring out the best way to incentivize manufacturing companies to come to the city. What tax incentives would we need?... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 07 Jan 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

worried about students going into these culture industries only thinking in terms of traditional management styles and industry structures, bottom lines, and financial incentives, without thinking about what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 15 Nov 2018
  • Webinars: Career

How to Prepare for High-Stakes Professional Events

Career trajectories depend on performing well during vital moments: Job interviews, VC pitches, a crucial presentation, a make-or-break sales call. Performing well depends on practice, knowledge, and skillbut it also depends on your emotions and mindset. View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for attendance, and champion an organizational culture... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 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
  • 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
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

arises from behavioral biases and misperceptions of probability distributions. Finally, nonpecuniary taste-based factors may be important in motivating both the decisions to enter into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

increases repayment rates, as borrowers anticipate that a good credit record improves their access to credit. This incentive effect of information sharing is substantial when repayment is not third party enforceable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

environmental protection was decoupled from regulation. These mechanisms include (a) the intense emphasis on economic growth leading to misaligned incentives and regulatory competition across regions, (b)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them. And try not to get too depressed in the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

would have to explain why not (á la Finland) providing governmental incentives to promote women in the workplace, such as paternity leave and tax cuts for childcare (as in Sweden) doing pretty much nothing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

Summing Up The concept of "just enough" triggered the sensitivities of many of us, judging from the quantity of responses to this month's column. Respondents divided themselves not into the usual pro and con camps, but into... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Creativity" is scheduled to appear in the April 2001 issue. Asked by HBS Working Knowledge about her motivation for focusing on John Irving, Amabile replied, "I wanted to counteract a strong stereotype that people in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace