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  • 12 May 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Equality and Equity in Compensation

Keywords: by Jiayi Bao and Andy Wu
  • Article

Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • January 2009
  • Supplement

KPMG (B): Risk and Reform

By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman
Under the leadership of Tim Flynn, Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to the accounting giant... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

usually aware of these activities yet turn a blind eye, says Anteby. Why? Is that because such managers are nice people? Or do supervisors see hidden yet important benefits in a company culture that tacitly encourages—and nourishes—gray... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Too Motivated?

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

management, reputation, strategy and other sustainability aspects. The informed investor assesses the quality of the company's risk management and whether it has considered the sustainability issues pertinent to its business." Q: What are the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

an organization where employees are expending their energies in a number of divergent and uncoordinated directions." Leaders need to ask whether they articulate a clear vision and, just as importantly, whether their key View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Blog Post

Leveraging LinkedIn to Recruit Candidates

Prospective employees conduct keyword searches to find new and interesting companies on LinkedIn. If your organization has a LinkedIn page, make sure it is rich with industry-specific keywords. To keep your page current, post company... View Details

    Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

    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,... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2018
    • Blog Post

    From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship

    The first year at Harvard business School gives you a breadth of courses to sink your teeth into. One of the real benefits of studying such a range of materials in the first year, is how easily I was able to apply my learnings while... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 30 Jun 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

    Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park
    • 2006
    • Article

    Performance Measure Properties and the Effect of Incentive Contracts

    By: J. Bouwens and L. van Lent
    Using data from a third-party survey on compensation practices at 151 Dutch firms, we show that less noisy or distorted performance measures and higher cash bonuses are associated with improved employee selection and better-directed effort. Specifically, (1) an... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Data and Data Sets; Problems and Challenges; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Netherlands
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    • 31 Mar 2022
    • Blog Post

    Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

    At a young, growing company, there is always more work to be done. There are strategies to build, projects to complete, partnerships to forge, data to crunch, employees to develop – the list goes on. That’s why bringing on an intern to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    suspend certain benefit payments, such as 401(k) matching contributions. “These are some of those commonsense things that may not occur to people because they are thinking with their labor hats on and not their general business hat,”... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • Research Summary

    Current Research

    Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

    • 05 Dec 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

    Keywords: by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

    By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and N. Bugra Ozel
    We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as “managers” and paid a salary above a pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Organizational Design; Job Design and Levels; Compensation and Benefits
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    • June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
    • Supplement

    Vanguard Retail Operations (B)

    By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
    The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or... View Details
    Keywords: Pooling; Generalist Model; Specialist Model; Service Operations; Management; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction

    By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
    A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
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    • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People

    When Jack Sindler founded Spir-it, Inc. in 1934, he was the company's sole employee. By 1999, Sindler's firm more than survived its first 55 years. Employment was up to nearly 200, with facilities in two states and work done in three shifts. The product line--which had... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Production; Business Growth and Maturation; Interpersonal Communication; Logistics; Human Resources; Diversity Characteristics; Manufacturing Industry
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