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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay By: Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak Abstract—We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
company to company, industry to industry, and between the public and private sectors, Nicholas says. “These are enormously complicated issues we’re dealing with,” he says. And, he is careful to note, his research isn’t claiming that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
I think, rather than asking what type of person is going to give, the more helpful question is to ask what can be done to change the structure of the ask in any particular situation. "They may be looking for excuses not to always say... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Concealment: The Roots of Dishonest Behavior How Moral Flexibility Constrains Our Moral Compass By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, fraud, deception, uncooperative actions, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
employees), deliver personalized customer service, and maintain a close connection to the local community. In addition, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts had emerged as serious competitors, offering their own lines of specialty coffee... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
or ambitions. Finding balance requires careful thought. Avenues for Exploration Given the variety of personal hopes and commitments, there is no one set formula for finding balance. There are, however, a... View Details
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
the person up the chain be most responsible for whether you have a healthy relationship, but you're equally responsible. If you don't manage that relationship right, your team is not going to be able to do what it needs to do.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2021
- Case
HelloSelf: Launch
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2021, Charles Wells, founder and CEO of HelloSelf was reflecting on the company’s progress since it launched two years earlier. HelloSelf’s goal was to help the mentally ill recover and those who were mentally fit to stay well and feel even better. To do this,... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Great Britain
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "HelloSelf: Launch." Harvard Business School Case 721-432, June 2021.
- Profile
David Velasquez
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible, effective, and equitable – now is... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
Encourage employees to tell you what they are doing well and how they are lifehacking. Share best practices and praise them. Managers who meet their teams’ bonding needs: Make employees feel a part of the team Are people-oriented Care... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables personal... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
from one of the three major credit reporting agencies over several years. This offered an in-depth look at borrowers that either used a fintech company or a bank to obtain a personal loan. (A personal loan... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
And how do I do it with people who are increasingly different from me? And the reason I want to do it with people who are increasingly different from me is that if I get to have a team that is increasingly different than I am, and you have a team that is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz