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  • September 2024
  • Article

A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated with Performance Overconfidence

By: Erica R. Bailey, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Having passion is almost universally lauded. People strive to follow their passion at work, and organizations increasingly seek out passionate employees. Supporting the benefits of passion, prior research finds a robust relationship between passion and higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: Interests; Personal Characteristics; Performance Evaluation
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  • March 2021
  • Article

Opting-in to Prosocial Incentives

By: Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Field Experiments; Recycling; Prosocial Motivation; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • 05 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

    basement doesn’t help us remember. Beshears and colleagues tracked 1,801 employees of a health benefits administrator, Express Scripts, during the 2011-2012 flu season. Their goal was to determine whether... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
    • 08 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

    Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Sreedhari D. Desai
    • September 2019
    • Technical Note

    Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
    This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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    • August 2020 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    PayPal: The Next Chapter

    By: Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Annelena Lobb
    Can a social purpose and stakeholder capitalism confer a powerful competitive advantage in the age of COVID-19? For PayPal, the answer is yes. After spinning off from eBay in a 2015 IPO, the company declared its purpose as "democratizing financial services" by ensuring... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Finance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Entrepreneurship; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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    • November 2022 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings

    By: Caroline M. Elkins, Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman and Julia M. Comeau
    Financial Inclusion. Dignity. Trust. These were the core principles driving James Mwangi’s transformation of Equity Building Society, insolvent in 1991, into what is, today, Equity Group Holdings, East and Central Africa’s largest retail banking institution. Raised in... View Details
    Keywords: Income Inequality; Micro Finance; Microcredit; Microfinance; Banks and Banking; Equality and Inequality; Mission and Purpose; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Kenya
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    • 17 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomer Self-Expression

    Keywords: by Dan Cable, Francesca Gino & Brad Staats
    • October 1981
    • Background Note

    Note on Rewards Systems

    By: Michael Beer
    Looks at rewards in general, and pay in particular, and studies the conditions that may enhance or detract from employee satisfaction and organizational effectiveness. View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Wages; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Motivation and Incentives; Satisfaction
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    • July 2010
    • Supplement

    Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (B)

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    The (B) case describes how Credit Suisse management allocated the cost of the 25% U.K. banker's tax among shareholders, U.K. managing directors, and the other employees globally. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom
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    • December 2023
    • Article

    Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals

    By: Kira Schabram, Matt Bloom and DJ DiDonna
    Sabbaticals have seen an exponential growth in adoption over the last two decades and are ascribed extensive benefits by employers and employees alike. Little is known, however, about how individuals spend their time or how their experiences impact them after they... View Details
    Keywords: Sabbatical; Personal Development and Career; Employees
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    • December 1982 (Revised December 1984)
    • Case

    Hi-Tech Corp.

    By: Fred K. Foulkes and William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Hi-Tech examines the financial implications of a reduction in the work force via a voluntary severance program which offers up to two and a half times annual pay if an employee voluntarily terminates employment. View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Financial Management; Retirement; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Finance; Technology Industry; Europe
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    • April 2021
    • Article

    Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
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    • 02 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

    At the gambling meccas that employ them, they are called "casino hosts"—essentially front-line employees with nevertheless big responsibilities. These staffers work to develop one-on-one relationships with high-rollers to make sure they... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 12 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

    guide employees in their exercise of autonomy. I call this approach freedom within a framework. Two steps to authoritative leadership To become a more authoritative leader, I suggest taking two basic steps: Communicate a clear framework.... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation
    • July 2012
    • Supplement

    Show Me the Money (B)

    By: Clayton Rose
    A business unit leader faces a major decision when an employee critical to a high-profile transaction asks for a unique compensation arrangement that has implications for the culture of the business. View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Compensation; Risk Management; Leadership; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits
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    • September 2023
    • Article

    Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

    By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
    Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for... View Details
    Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; Executive Compensation; Ownership
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    • 05 Oct 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Vanguard Corporation

    has created change, and that's why I think the parade will grow. As companies gain marketplace benefits by doing the right thing right, others will follow. Q: It's interesting that SuperCorp was published on the first-year anniversary of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2021
    • Article

    The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training

    By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Byoung G. Park
    This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model on agents’ behavior takes into account many of the key elements that... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Training; Behavior; Analysis
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