Rewards - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

societal rewards or status quo? Despite the model’s proven effectiveness, most pharmaceutical manufacturers have been slow to adopt the voluntary licensing and BBOP approach to help a population of people who typically live on less than... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

26 Aug 2024
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HBS Lingo 101

understanding of engineering. SA: The HBS Student Association represents and advocates for the student body and serves as the main interface between students and the faculty/administration. Through our academic, social, and professional initiatives, we strive to create... View Details

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Loujaine AlMoallim

game that keeps you on your toes (or on your head, in some cases). And nothing feels more rewarding than facing these challenges and learning how to tackle them. What is your most memorable classroom moment? During one of our classes in... View Details

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

and rewards longtime loyal customers with first chance to buy limited edition cars. On the surface, that scarcity-generates-demand model seems destined to clash with becoming a public company. Ferrari decided to go public, in part, to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Transforming Care Delivery & Payment By: Robert S. Kaplan , David N. Bernstein and Mary L. Witkowski May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Health care in the U.S. and globally continues to undergo massive transformation, surging towards a system that View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

bring different people together and spur them to action.” Their reward for thinking beyond profits? These businesses tend to live a long time. In fact, on a global map, Japan stands out for corporate longevity; 40 percent of companies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

delivery and pickup options and provide incentives to customers to reward them using these options. Dunkin’ provides extra loyalty points to customers who pre-order on mobile apps. HBO made numerous shows available for free on its app to... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

relationship to a whole new level. This can be an incredibly rewarding experience for you, but it can also test the relationship to the max. While you probably know this person and you probably trust each other better than strangers,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

accountable to senior management for employing the process regularly, and second, rewarding those who do with recognition and promotion. That is exactly what Southwest Airlines and Johnson & Johnson have done for decades. Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

a different culture on a task that rewards creative collaboration, high cultural metacognition in one of the two individuals gives the pair the potential for affective trust and creativity," Chua says. "This potential, however, is only... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2013
HBS Seminar

Robert Gierkink, Chairman, Datalogix

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the... View Details

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

sheet to provide immediate rewards to investors. Don’t nod off at this point. Agency theory is much more than just a dry concept; it has had a profound impact on the way corporations have been managed for nearly 50 years. One reason the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

independent decisions and to find ways to improve operations—including their own. Reward achievement with pay based on performance, but keep raising the performance bar. Pay psychological rewards in addition... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

more companies are pursuing market strategies that fit the shared-value model—and reaping the rewards of innovation and growth. General Electric, Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Unilever, and Wal-Mart are examples of... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

copies, enlargements, or negatives of their prints. Polaroid advertising copy highlighted the wonder, ease, and instant rewards of a revolutionary system that "telescopes all the developing, fixing and stabilizing operations of ordinary... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

order to generate sufficient funds to pursue future innovations, repay and reward investors, or support social and environmental initiatives. For the full listing, click here . Real Property (Fall 2024) Boris Vallee This course is... View Details

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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward Professor Josh Krieger Preparing for a Career in Consumer Health Elena Avramov Play How the nudge movement can improve healthy behavior John Beshears Beyond Medical Devices: Filling in the Gaps at... View Details

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