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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

the success of the Jordan brand. He discusses how education can break the street-to-jail cycle and why business leaders should give formerly incarcerated people a second chance. Crushed to see his dream job evaporate and fearing that no... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

explore their own fundamental assumptions about leadership and human nature. Are people basically lazy or energetic? What motivates people to do their best? What is the most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Positive By: Goranson, Amelia, Ryan S. Ritter, Adam Waytz, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract— In people’s imagination, dying seems dreadful; however, these perceptions may not reflect reality. In two studies, we compared the affective experience of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

the problem is that people usually focus on an entrepreneurial ‘personality’ rather than identifying the unique skills and behaviors of entrepreneurs who launch and grow their own firms.” Complicating this understanding are the many types... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

paid a straight salary. About 23 percent more likely to spend extra time on work projects. The researchers conducted three studies to test whether people view their colleagues as important to their success. In one study, those View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

1619 and 1628. Cumbo was one of the first African men to own land in the colonies. Kearns also discovered he is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Johannes Schmierer, who immigrated from central Europe to North America in 1755, became a patriot in the... View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

people come in and get told: We can’t do this. Let me tell you why this didn’t work. Because they are stuck in a status quo mindset. “But you don’t have time for that—change is often a matter of speed. There’s also sometimes a belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

(superstar) The first four reflect how an executive deals with subordinates in the company; the final one is directed at people outside the firm. Directive leadership is well known in America, but is declining in frequency. It stresses... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • May 2024 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Leading Culture Change at Microsoft Western Europe

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Cat Huang
In 2023, Cindy Rose, President of Microsoft Western Europe, faced a critical decision. Rose grappled with the potential impact of widespread layoffs on psychological safety and the cultural transformation she had championed since her arrival. When Rose had first joined... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Business or Company Management; Technology Industry; Europe
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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-006.pdf Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation Authors:Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina A. Diekmann, Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract This paper explores the biased... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

necessary to solve tangible problems. In fact, the fund itself was also in its early stage, showing me first-hand how to build a mission-oriented endeavor from the ground up. Professional goals: I want to create products and communities to better serve our planet and... View Details
  • Web

Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the View Details
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

is less able to motivate loan officers than immediate compensation," Cole says. "A lot of literature shows that people in a wide variety of settings overvalue today's money versus money in 90 days.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

By: Peter Tufano
We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness
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  • March 2021
  • Article

Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home... View Details
Keywords: Active Choice; Defaults; Implicit Defaults; Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

Prior to the acquisition, Twitter as a company was much weaker than most people realize. They’ve struggled with profitability for many years, and they’ve been quite slow at innovating on new features and growth opportunities. By doing... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

recognizes that communication with and motivation of an organization's managers, employees, and partners is extremely difficult. What this means in practice is that if we tell all participants in an organization that its sole purpose is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • Profile

Joy Chen

experience with nonprofits, I felt that people often weren’t incentivized to create value in the most efficient way possible. The level of pay sometimes struggled to attract top talent, and there were lots of red tape. Ultimately, I... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad. As soon as that ship was frozen,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace