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  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. This makes their behavior especially perplexing, raising questions about what caused them to lose their way: Why do leaders known for integrity and leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only been two other socioeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Business Education; Knowledge; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Performance Effectiveness; Attitudes; Behavior; Perspective
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

regulation of their industry. Their rash behavior will deprive future generations of entire species of nutritious fish. Long-term thinking about intergenerational issues is lacking in this and many other public decision-making arenas.... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

negative tweets engaged more users. Originating as internet novelties 15 years ago, social media platforms have altered everything from democracy to human relationships in ways that are hard to overstate. Governments around the world have... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

something and didn't do anything.” In the new book Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop, Bazerman points to the Purdue example as emblematic of the troubling human tendency to go along with acts of wrongdoing, and he... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

iPhoto Companies continually test ways to incent employees to perform more effectively, often turning to worker-motivation tools such as bonuses, “up or out” employee ranking tournaments, and employee of the month rewards. Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

people’s time, but I do believe the human spirit loves two things: entertainment and communal experiences. I love that the word “entertainment” comes from an Old French verb, entretenir, meaning “to hold together.” What’s been the most... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • News

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

  • March–April 2014
  • Article

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 08 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension

Keywords: by Sara J. Singer & Amy C. Edmondson

    Sandra J. Sucher

    Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; banking; brokerage; clothing; fashion; financial services; furniture; hotels ＆ motels; retail financial services; retailing; service industry
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    experienced colleagues. Assistant Professors Anjali M. Bhatt Organizational Behavior Julian De Freitas Marketing Summer R. Jackson Organizational Behavior Jung Koo Kang Accounting & Management Rebecca A.... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    Wall Street than is yet common in Asia. Wall Street has strong expectations about the behavior and performance of executives and about succession. There is less freedom of action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. In Asia,... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    Leadership Leadership 2015 Chapter Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Linda A. Hill More than ever, leaders of nearly every kind of organization view their human resources teams... View Details
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market... View Details
    • Web

    Research Resources - Doctoral

    sources, designing your study, deciding which statistical methods to employ, interpreting results, and writing a statistical program. Behavioral Research Services Harvard Business School’s Behavioral... View Details
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    that diversity is good overall.” What’s driving these decisions? Chang speculates that a behavioral phenomenon known as “loss aversion,” in which people focus on avoiding losses rather than reaping potential gains, might be influencing... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding