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- 28 Jun 2022
- News
Why Companies Think Paying for Abortion Travel Is Worth It
- 19 Mar 2012
- News
It Pays to Be Happy: The Progress Principle at Work
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000 patients in View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Mar 2018
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
that it transforms these problems into opportunities,” Leger says. Blindness is the second leading cause of disability in Mexico, with more than 2 million people suffering from cataracts, 700,000 of whom are completely blind due to the... View Details
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Forward Fellowship | MBA
Forward Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding The HBS Forward Fellowship helps support students from lower-income backgrounds who carry significant financial burdens or obligations to family. We hope to... View Details
- February 2005 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Jorge Tarzijan and Jordan Mitchell
Celulosa Arauco is a major Chilean producer of market pulp and wood products. Owning over 1.2 million hectares of forest in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, the company's key advantage is the ideal growing conditions in which the company's forests are located. As of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Forest Products Industry; Chile
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Jorge Tarzijan, and Jordan Mitchell. "Arauco (A): Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" Harvard Business School Case 705-474, February 2005. (Revised March 2009.)
- 24 Feb 2019
- News
Booz Allen’s CFO on Why It Pays to Ask for Help
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 8, 1908, and President Eliot’s choice for its first dean — a young Harvard economist named Edwin F. Gay — was confirmed that day. The following fall, 24 candidates arrived ready to pursue a... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
Pay Dispersion and Work Performance
By: Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan
The effect of intra-firm pay dispersion on work performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist... View Details
Bucciol, Alessandro, and Marco Piovesan. "Pay Dispersion and Work Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-075, February 2012.
- 16 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
particular tool put forward in reforms is the idea of "say on pay," which gives shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. The Obama administration has proposed requiring View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ performance to such an extent that View Details
- June 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)
By: Brian J. Hall, Edward Lazear and Carleen Madigan
Describes a company's changing of its compensation and incentive plan. In particular, it shows how a change from hourly pay to piece rate pay (for windshield installers) affected productivity, pay, and turnover. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance Productivity; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Auto Industry
Hall, Brian J., Edward Lazear, and Carleen Madigan. "Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-291, June 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stereotype and expand their image of what’s possible for them.” Since 2014, Owusu-Kesse has served as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a path-breaking New York nonprofit known for its multifaceted approach to ending... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
America's Steps Forward to Improving Health Care
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
lower than the $365 benchmark price. The repair shops didn’t bite. It pays for all consumers in a negotiated price settlement—everything from buying a house or a car to hiring a contractor—to do their... View Details
- 2018
- Book
Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life
By: F. Gino
The world’s best chef.
An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
What do all of these... View Details
An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
What do all of these... View Details
Gino, F. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life. New York: Dey Street Books, 2018.
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken