Compensation and Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. You Might Also... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

Our daily lives are dictated by familiar routines that go something like this: Wake at 6 a.m., shower, go to work, prepare and eat dinner, tidy up the house, head to bed at 10 p.m. Then, set the alarm to repeat it all over again the next... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

greatest benefit is the tool’s ability to give clinicians confidence over a wider range of expertise, Gresser says. Health systems in the UK and elsewhere have been responding to the staffing shortages by... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

love the product? Or investors who believed in the founder and her dream? Many entrepreneurs rightly want to protect the interests of these constituencies, Eisenmann says, and will strive to do so by keeping... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses like boilers View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

in those areas. As people draw on each other's experience and knowledge, they begin to build a lasting advisory network. Clearly one of the long-term benefits of the program is being part of such a fantastic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

For Recruiters - Health Care

systems, e-health firms, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and biotechnology companies. Hire a Summer Intern Summer internships are valuable for both employers and students as a “test... View Details

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

can reduce feelings of anxiety and isolation and replace them with feelings of empowerment and connectedness, the authors write. That, in turn, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

April 2009
Case

Merck: Managing Vioxx (A)

By: Robert L. Simons, Kathryn Rosenberg and Natalie Kindred

This two-class case series allows students to stand in the shoes of CEO Ray Gilmartin during the unfolding stages of a reputational crisis. Merck's mission statement claims to "put patients first," but the company is widely criticized for putting profit before patient... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Crisis Management; Reputation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Customers; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Educators

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11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

whole team setting and meeting a range of performance benchmarks over a period of time," write Hope and Fraser. "Performance is then evaluated by a peer review group (using relative measures) with... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

their bosses' boss, and career coaches to discuss career-path possibilities at the company. "These meetings are separate from performance reviews," says Grantham. According to Grantham, one staff accountant at CHELCO recently... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy banana-walnut pancakes and steaming... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense knowledge to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

faced by entrepreneurs in starting and running a business, including securities and intellectual property law issues. Bagley's teaching and research focus on legal aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

people can weigh the costs and benefits of their current behavior taking into consideration its implications for the future, and still choose to engage. One way to test whether... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

accelerating the integration of wind, solar, and battery storage — while leveraging existing infrastructure assets. TS’s products can be used to substitute legacy conductors using the same tools and... View Details

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

When Harvard Business School Associate Professor Francesca Gino invites high-powered business leaders to address her class, she often observes an interesting phenomenon. The guest speakers announce that they are just as interested in learning from the students as... View Details