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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
According to several research studies, one of the greatest concerns of those working significant amounts of time remotely is the “out of sight, out of mind” syndrome, especially when it comes to promotions and pay increases. Although the research has yet to be done, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
would work extra hard. That did not happen." Chung sees two factors at work. First, salespeople are exposed to bonus schemes on a regular basis, so they know it's not a one-time thing. And second, research has found that when a good is... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
not mean putting a positive spin on a sorry situation—an organization at which only 1 percent of executives are minorities, for example. Rather, it means looking at the exception to the rule and studying the factors that made that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices we make more broadly as human beings (whom we date, how we deal with friendships). She identifies the factors likely to sway decisions in wrong... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
really know? Has enough attention been focused on what is an admittedly difficult issue to examine, considering that compensation is only one of many factors in an organization's performance? Given the fact that we're talking about tens... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
companies." Kerr points to other factors beyond salary: "Younger immigrant workers are often more tied to the firm, are willing to work long hours, and often have fewer family commitments. Their salary may also be lower, especially... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa Ouellet. The study began by asking what View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
de-risks the entry for other investment opportunities. “At the end of the day, that helps people who are living on $1 a day increase their livelihoods by maybe a factor of 5x. We are, of course, focused on the economic side of investments... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Utku Ünver explain in a paper, factors such as contracts, control of stadiums, and corporate sponsorship effectively tied the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) into a system of early matching of teams.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for factors such as industry, pre-MBA... View Details
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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog
Understand the wide range of motivational factors that drive human behavior in an organizational context, including pay, perquisites, promotions, opportunities for skill development, social approval,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
"Regional Disadvantage? Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain," the researchers show that non-competes indeed factor into an inventor's decision to emigrate, within the United States, to states that disallow non-competes. "It's clear... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important to me. Through my business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
factors in how people gain access to power that have changed in ways that reflect how the country as a whole is evolving.” How did you develop the data that Paths to Power is based on? If you study art, music, or writing, there is a list... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
made different decisions and it all ends up in court, the company loses. And companies, especially human resources functions, hate administering exceptions. Walmart employs a million people. If all of a sudden everything is customized,... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global workforce would consider leaving their jobs this year. Several... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta