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- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
Whillans co-wrote a recent article in Compensation & Benefits Review, “Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees,” with Anais Thibault-Landry of the Université du Québec à Montréal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
competitor. That, in turn, drags down the firm’s revenue even faster. In contrast, if a company decides to eliminate head count, the employer can control who leaves—presumably letting go less-productive workers. The findings are presented in the working paper Analyzing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
profitability than those in the bottom quartile. A 2016 study of 21,980 firms in 91 countries found that companies with mixed gender boards outperformed those with all-male boards. Of course, you are aware of controversies surrounding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
to achieve. But each also has costs, often unintended. The problem managers face is resolving the tension between E and O in a way that obtains the benefits of each and minimizes the negative consequences of each. Too often, these theories are View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
effects of alliance membership and to study "booster," network, and peer effects. Financial service firms that join climate alliances show increased adoption of climate-aligned management practices; greater adoption of emissions targets; reductions of own-emissions;... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
along" seem crude and outdated workplace mantras when contrasted with the sophistication of modern business, yet they are still considered sound advice. Compensating Candor HBS professor Max Bazerman of the Negotiation, Organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
performance of an organization has long been debated, and the debate has focused most recently on the controversy over compensation for CEOs. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton cite studies that maintain that no more than 10 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
about and weighs the past and future. In some places, tips are provided not so much to reward good service but to encourage good service in the future—a perception that brings the tip closer to the purpose of a bribe, which is also focused on future service. A History... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
half-dozen global companies have successfully piloted the method, and a new HBS case written about Harvard University’s potential use of the method to quantify the benefits from sourcing a low-carbon concrete mix for new building... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
120 adult participants, a mix of men and women, and asked each to complete 20 math problems. The researchers then measured participants' hormone levels via saliva samples, both before and after the math exercise. All participants received... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
tuition in fiscal 2022 was $73,440, flat with fiscal 2021. Combined tuition and fees for fiscal 2022 were at the bottom of the peer business schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School’s total revenues. From an enrollment standpoint, the View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
plans that are not linked to the organization's strategy. This is extraordinary. (d) Seventy percent of middle managers and more than 90 percent of front-line employees have compensation that is not linked to the strategy. (e) Most... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
ways that avoid the mistakes of industrial policies in the past. Empirical evidence is also mixed with some recent work suggesting that much of the potential and for export growth and export diversification into more attractive market... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
dissatisfaction ("hygiene factors") are completely separate from those that determine true satisfaction ("motivators"). Insufficient financial compensation, for example, falls into the former camp. But having sufficient compensation will... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
an increase of more than 20 percent compared with fiscal 2022. Executive Education also delivered custom programs to more than 4,500 participants, onboarding 23 new clients across a diverse mix of industries. Internationally, the group... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
picture is far more mixed than it may appear. Except for some business leaders in the asset management and energy sectors, by and far there is a resounding silence at worst, and warmed-over platitudes at best, from most of the business... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
percent, from $831 million for fiscal 2020. The decrease was primarily attributable to a reduction in program activity as a result of COVID-19. Salaries & Benefits Compensation for faculty and administrative staff is the largest expense... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
brings new reports of hedge fund closings and the scaling back of private equity investments. Not surprisingly, the enormously high compensation packages in these fields are shrinking as well, making jobs in these sectors far less... View Details