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  • July 2012
  • Technical Note

Assessing Business Work Reward Values

By: Timothy Butler
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Leadership
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Butler, Timothy. "Assessing Business Work Reward Values." Harvard Business School Technical Note 813-053, July 2012.
  • July 2002 (Revised January 2003)
  • Case

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Marilyn Winn, head of human resources at Harrah's Entertainment, must make a recommendation to the company's president and CEO about whether the existing bonus payout program is effective at motivating employees or whether it should be revised and/or replaced. A recent... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Alignment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People." Harvard Business School Case 403-008, July 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

Professor Joseph B. Lassiter III's research explores entrepreneurial marketing in high-potential ventures. He describes entrepreneurial marketing as a mindset and a process, one that involves gathering specific evidence that convinces a specific group of individuals to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before jumping to an internal start-up,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 16, 2009
  • Guest Column

Risks and Rewards of Celebrity Endorsements

By: Anita Elberse
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Elberse, Anita. "Risks and Rewards of Celebrity Endorsements." CNN.com (December 16, 2009).
  • 16 Dec 2009
  • News

Risks and rewards of celebrity endorsements

  • 01 Feb 2011
  • News

5 ways to reward the B-player in your team

  • March 2006 (Revised March 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Cabo San Viejo: Rewarding Loyalty (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon
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Moon, Youngme E. "Cabo San Viejo: Rewarding Loyalty (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 506-061, March 2006. (Revised March 2006.)
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance

Keywords: by Wei Cai and Susanna Gallani; Manufacturing
  • July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Teaching Note

Rapid Rewards at Southwest Airlines (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Air Transportation Industry
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Frei, Frances X. "Rapid Rewards at Southwest Airlines (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-048, July 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Video

Generating Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward

  • December 2010
  • Background Note

Risk and Reward in Venture Capital

By: William A. Sahlman
This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital–backed companies and in venture capital portfolios. Venture Capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (0ver 50%) and a small number of given successes (greater than... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science; Failure; Performance; Information Technology
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Sahlman, William A. "Risk and Reward in Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-036, December 2010.
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large public health... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • June 18, 2019
  • Article

Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Wilbur Chen
A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details
Keywords: Digital Technologies; Disclosure; Investment; Performance Improvement
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Srinivasan, Suraj, and Wilbur Chen. "Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 18, 2019).
  • July 2021
  • Article

Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich

By: Oliver P. Hauser, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak and Michael I. Norton
Four experiments examine how the lack of awareness of inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to... View Details
Keywords: Income Transparency; Income; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Knowledge; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Society; Policy
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Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and Michael I. Norton. "Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich." Behavioural Public Policy 5, no. 3 (July 2021): 333–353.
  • 1992
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Reward Systems in the Role of Compensation

By: M. Beer
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives
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Beer, M. "Reward Systems in the Role of Compensation." In Managing People and Organizations, edited by J. J. Gabarro. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.
  • 28 Oct 2011
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For Incoming I.B.M. Chief, Self-Confidence is Rewarded

    Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

    A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details
    • January 2013
    • Article

    'I'll Have One of Each': How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation

    By: F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth
    We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are meaningless. Across six experiments, people were more motivated to obtain one reward from one category and another reward from another category than they were to... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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    Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth. "'I'll Have One of Each': How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 104, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–13.
    • May 2003
    • Teaching Note

    Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People (TN)

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and Jaan Margus Elias
    Teaching Note for (9-403-008). View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    DeLong, Thomas J., and Jaan Margus Elias. "Harrah's Entertainment, Inc: Rewarding Our People (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 403-155, May 2003.
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