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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking

By: Jan Bouwens and Arnt Verriest
This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international financial institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Equity Ownership; Financial Risk; Banks; Motivation and Incentives; Risk Management; Employee Ownership; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

are, after all, employees not partners; the decision and accountability ultimately accrue to the chief executive. As for the board of directors, only a stream of wrong decisions is likely to stir its concern. In contrast, in a PSF, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

employees undeniable proof that the Industrial Age corporate culture is gone, and that you are creating an environment for the future. The way to do that is to blatantly and offensively break with the past through loud statements of... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2021
  • Office Hours

Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

written about the caregiving roles of employees and strengthening the education-to-work pipeline. The following is a transcript of questions posed by Instagram users and Fuller’s answers: Should we be worried about the current “worker... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Manufacturing
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

Employee theft and fraud: $600 billion. "The costs to business and society are striking," she said. Gino, an associate professor and behavioral economist at HBS, studies ethical decision making and the psychology of moral... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • January 2025
  • Supplement

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams (B)

By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In January 2025, Modi reflects on the past decade of Go Mobile and looks ahead to new growth strategies. View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • 04 Aug 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

value-based employee development." Khadija Khan, while agreeing that "...it is hard to identify attitude problems in a short interview process," proposed a response: "One innovative approach that we use is to organize... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Bekkers. Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date Knowing how to keep a conversation going can improve your career as well as your social life, according to research by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues. Why Productivity Suffers When View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

shares, I don't act like an owner, I need 20 million shares to get me over my motivational hurdle? When you have a company where practically all employees or professional View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

Even so, the executives brought the issue to Harvard Business School Professor Robin J. Ely. Eighteen months and more than 100 employee interviews later, Ely’s research team reached a conclusion that challenged steadfast beliefs about the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • March – April 2008
  • Article

Identity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies in an Aeronautic Plant

By: Michel Anteby
Research has long shown that organizations shape members' identities. However, the possibility that these identities might also be desired and that members might benefit from this process has only recently been explored. In a qualitative study of a French aeronautic... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Identity; Motivation and Incentives; Aerospace Industry; France
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  • January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital

By: Boris Groysberg, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman and Libby Williams
Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology (DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was... View Details
Keywords: Training; Employees; Retention; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
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  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54725 2018 The Oxford Handbook of Advice How the Other Half Thinks: The Psychology of Advising By: Blunden, Hayley, and Francesca Gino Abstract—This chapter integrates research on advice interactions, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

achieve organizational efficiency ... (by) highly motivated and committed staff with the passion to overachieve." Further, it is thought to work best in cultures where people have the latitude on occasion to fail (or as Mariana van... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

more for sustainable goods. Almost 60 percent report that a product’s health and wellness benefits motivate purchasing decisions. And over 40 percent say that they factor a company’s social value into purchasing decisions. Millennials are... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and Elizabeth M. Gerber. The Most Powerful Workplace View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • March 1987 (Revised October 1993)
  • Case

Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program

By: W. Earl Sasser
In recent years, Au Bon Pain (ABP), a chain of upscale French bakeries/sandwich cafes based in Boston, confronted a set of human resource problems endemic to the fast food industry (i.e., a labor shortage which made it difficult to attract and maintain quality crew... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Managerial Roles; Retention; Employees; Performance Improvement; Recruitment; Problems and Challenges; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Boston
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  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee View Details
Keywords: by Staff

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