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  • 18 Aug 2018
  • News

How to be happier

  • 07 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

Keywords: by Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Willy C. Shih
  • 24 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by James E. Austin & Ezequiel Reficco
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field

Keywords: by Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin & Lamar Pierce; Service
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

because they find the work rewarding in and of itself. Given that goals can undermine this intrinsic value of work, sometimes the best solution is no specific stretch goal at all or at the very least mastery... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2018
  • Case

The Nature Conservancy in 2018

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a U.S.-based environmental NGO with $7 billion in assets and a presence in 72 countries in 2018. TNC originated in 1951 as a land trust, acquiring land in order to conserve it. Over the last 20 years, it developed a pragmatic... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives

By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the overall business strategy of the organization. The module begins by discussing how managers use goals to communicate business strategy, the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Performance Goals; Performance Measures; Incentives; Benchmarks; Motivation; Compensation; Bonuses; Strategy
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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • 25 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

    Keywords: by Roy Y.J. Chua & Xi Zou; Consumer Products; Retail
    • Program

    Authentic Leader Development

    through difficult and pressure-filled challenges Adapt your leadership style to different scenarios, while remaining true to your values and purpose Balance your intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to find... View Details
    • 23 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

    Often overlooked in essays on leadership is the role of the organization's measurement and management system. Effective leaders, however, know that measurement and management systems play a critical role in communication; in establishing the culture and View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

      PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    immediate and long-term goals in mind. One respondent summed up the challenge in a particularly apt way: “Shifting existing organizational structures from ‘peacetime’ value creation to ‘wartime/survival’ in a very short period of time As... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

    By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
    Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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    • 05 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 5, 2016

    avoid approaches that could undermine one another (e.g., economic incentives crowding out intrinsic incentives). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51300 Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    productivity levels. But money is less meaningful as a motivator in the complex creative jobs that make up most work in our modern knowledge-based society. “With most of today’s employees, you’re trying to help instill intrinsic... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

    supports, putting together diversely skilled teams that communicate well, are mutually committed to the work, and constructively discuss ideas); supervisory encouragement (team leaders who communicate effectively with the group, value... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
    • 09 Apr 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

    the month" motivate higher performance? Not really—and they may turn off your best employees altogether. Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill Everyone comes to the table with some amount of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

    came habitually late," Larkin says. Ultimately, the researchers concluded that rewarding one behavior sometimes can "crowd out" intrinsic motivation in another. Rewards that work Despite the fact that this particular award brought more... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service