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- 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
- 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
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
some comforting words? We applaud candor while sometimes penalizing those who pursue it. Exhibit A is President Barack Obama, whose candor (assuming he really believes what he is saying about the potential length and depth of the current downturn) has been View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
- 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
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
experience. Sound Micro Wallace Pai Joe Ngai Albert Lee Wen H. Hseieh Business Track Runner-Up To commercialize MEMS(Micro Elctro-Mechnical Systems) technology for developing a self-biasing silicon microphone. Business Track,1999 Local View Details
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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
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
between departments may feel like something outside their wheelhouse. Developing innovative ideas can also be costly for workers, taking time away from standard tasks they’re rewarded for. The company “did not make a rational choice... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- Web
Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
an increasingly vulnerable position. Large bonuses given to employees who achieved high returns (with no consequences if the firm did poorly) also contributed to a culture of rewarding risk. In the early 2000s, Lehman Brothers established... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
incredible students with the best experience possible,” Stamps explains. One of Stamps’s most rewarding activities is selecting and getting to know the scholars. Each school recommends a pool of candidates, and Stamps helps pick those he... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
three decades, Klarman has built one of the most successful hedge fund companies in the world. While such accolades are important to Klarman, he is equally proud of the culture at Baupost. "We have a very collaborative environment where people support each other," he... View Details
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the... 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
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
hidden biases embedded in internal systems, organizational structures, and decision-making processes. It's often hard, for example, to get the kind of cost information you need to think strategically. Or the company's incentive system View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
the number of jobs held by independent contractors has remained steady, fewer entrepreneurs are choosing to start ventures that require significant startup capital—and those are the same businesses that are typically rewarded with higher... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford University showing that organizations lose about a month of productivity each year due to employee health issues, including mental health struggles. Besides, Whillans’ previous research shows that money isn’t the only way to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
Great Product of Industry: The Rewarding Working Life," in Science and Human Progress; addresses at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 22 to 26, 1963 , Pittsburgh: Mellon Institute... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
as “an ambassador for the field of impact investing who is capable of walking with kings and talking with crowds.” For her part, Palandjian is grateful that she took the plunge. “This has been the most rewarding professional experience of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
boatloads of money until they finally drove the last of the integrated mills out of the market—and then the price of rebar dropped 20 percent, because rebar had essentially become a commodity market. The minimills' reward for victory was... View Details