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- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
to quit their jobs at record rates and try new posts and career paths. But self-employment, an option many workers are reportedly pursuing during the so-called Great Resignation, may not be as lucrative as it once was, according to a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
opportunity to cheat. But unbeknownst to the participants, the researchers were able to record the outcome of each coin toss and thus could tell who lied about the results. Two weeks later the researchers asked the participants to recall... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human experience and organizational life. Portraitists seek to record... View Details
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Effect of Different Financial Incentive Structures on Promoting Physical Activity Among Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial
By: Chethan Bachireddy, Andrew Joung, Leslie K. John, Francesca Gino, Bradford Tuckfield, Luca Foschini and Katherine L. Milkman
Importance: Few adults engage in recommended levels of physical activity. Financial incentives can promote physical activity, but little is known about how their structure influences their effectiveness; for example, whether incentives are more effective if they are... View Details
Bachireddy, Chethan, Andrew Joung, Leslie K. John, Francesca Gino, Bradford Tuckfield, Luca Foschini, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Effect of Different Financial Incentive Structures on Promoting Physical Activity Among Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA Network Open 2, no. 8 (August 2019): 1–13.
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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached dazzling new heights of creativity... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
upgrading its management techniques. Hoping to spur employees to develop ideas for bettering the company’s performance, the firm launched a system in which workers who put forth ideas were recognized with small sums of money. The company carefully View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
growing body of evidence that suggests that bottom-up "discovery" has a superior record in comparison with "top down 'deliberate' strategies from headquarters." He asks whether companies should call a halt to managing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
wake-up call from a small but loyal group of purists: mechanical watch collectors. "When things looked really bad for the mechanical watch industry, when the industry seemed on the verge of collapse, watch collectors started buying mechanical watches at auction at... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
After a “reboot,” the fund was finally performing well, but investors often sought a longer track record before buying in, the authors note. Employees take ownership Brown’s “horizontal” investing approach differs from many competitors’... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
own assumptions of other cultures—for example, by keeping a cultural journal in which they record their thoughts and observations. In the workplace, managers can create cultural "awareness moments," as HBS Associate Professor Tsedal Neely... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important collections in the world... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
adaptability of the organization over time. As he put it, "By focusing too strongly on financial records (and audit committee work), we lose sight of the fact that departments like operations and human resources are very important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
presentations and record them for our internal Web site. We open that for review to a 360-degree workshop. What happened? You cannot lie You are going to put your best work into it ." This policy may not be appropriate for all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
management of the facilities, recruiting talent, or coaching young people. I asked how that could be possible, given that she had built a firm of more than a thousand people and had achieved a record of consistent success. She explained... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
No IPO in recent memory has received as much negative pre-public publicity as WeWork, which provides shared workspaces and services for startups and other enterprises. The outpouring of criticism has focused on a number of items including a View Details