Rewards - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

that drove me in my career. I was working on spreadsheets at 2 a.m. just helping make a random billion-dollar company a bigger profit, which wasn’t as rewarding as refueling a tank battalion at 2 a.m. How can students best familiarize... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials should shift to View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

the financial crisis, companies like New Century Financial or Countrywide Financial built their success by incentivizing their employees on volume--to sell as many mortgages as possible with little regard for quality—and the stock market View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Now Key Concepts Identify a business opportunity Evaluate an idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key... View Details

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Yung Winata

airplane (probably a clichéd analogy for an Air Force Veteran). The take-off can be a bit unsteady and there is a steep climb. But the climb levels out before you know it. You settle into your seat and you are rewarded with a much broader... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

developing. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

when they derive a net benefit from the work, with net benefit based on both immediate and delayed rewards. Immediate rewards include monetary compensation, as well as the opportunity to fix a bug or customize a program for their own... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

26 May 2016
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

all parts of the world, she says, “is the most rewarding thing you can do.” UNICEF CEO Caryl Stern is full of appreciation and admiration. “Mary is truly part of this organization,” she says. “No matter how crazy her schedule might be,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

during this interim period of upskilling, and the incentive and reward system should be adjusted to allow current employees to go through this U-curve of performance. A final word: Digital transformation requires strengthening the core... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

explaining what the industry is, how funds are structured, what are the incentives, and how doctors can add value. We are very deliberate about bringing our audience along,” explains Faraz. Their effort is being rewarded with an engaged... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

explains. "They did not realize that less than 20 percent of the population in Vietnam live in the cities; the other 80 percent live in the countryside and are among the poorest people in the world." For Hoa, one of the most rewarding... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

22 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

taking the time to curate this experience for us. As someone born to teachers (going back three generations), I know we can never thank our faculty enough for all they do. For me, they have helped renew my hope that the path to a low-carbon future is going to be a... View Details

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

and creativity shines forth. Gross sees this as a very clear indication of the relative risks and rewards of the creative process. “Taking a chance on an untested, new idea is risky, and if the [potential] payoffs are too low—in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes, reward excellence and innovation, keep pace with medical advances, and work more efficiently, so they succeed in a competitive health care landscape. Key Action Steps for Providers & Individual Physicians Design medical practice... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

performance is rewarded with good money. This work led to many insights, but was fundamentally descriptive in nature. Meanwhile, largely in parallel, decision and game theorists typically analyzed what ultra-rational people would (or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

300 Academic Publications $ 140 m. Investment in Research Student Research Reputation Burning: Analyzing the Impact of Brand Sponsorship on Social Influencers By: Mengjie Cheng and Shunyuan Zhang 01 JUL 2025 | Management Science Extraverts Reap Greater Social View Details

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

that people asked to resist temptation in anticipation of reward become less productive and make more mistakes in their current tasks. The research paper Temptation at Work, by Harvard Business School research fellow Marco Piovesan and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

material rewards of business. They will come if you first take care to match your abilities with the opportunities that are available." CURRENT READING When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by David Maraniss When Joe... View Details

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

leadership for an organization. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, in their books, The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization, have argued for performance measures and reward practices that reflect predictors of future... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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