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  • 03 Sep 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

if an employer provides some special training/skill to an employee that increases his market value substantially ." Naseem Khan suggested that " a retention bonus may be doled out in lieu of base pay increases." Steve... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

to intervene in the process of competition and to improve the environment for competition. One of the points you mention in your book is that Japanese corporate practice has encouraged permanent employment. How is employee loyalty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

agents, for whom the relative value of the reward is higher. Second, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Third, non-financial rewards elicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented circumstances. How do you train... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

staff member receive credit for good ideas not only makes the employee feel valued and motivates him or her to come up with better ideas in the future, but also makes the leader look good. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

those posing questions about how we should think about "just enough." Bill Thompson put in words what a number of the respondents seemed to assume when he said, "I believe that the current, quasi-obscene disparities [in income] between top management and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

advantage of their weaknesses and blind spots. First, it helps to evaluate whether a competitor will be motivated to respond. Second, it identifies whether that competitor has the ability to do so effectively. As coauthors Clayton M.... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

productive workers during Kelleher's tenure were motivated by a vibrant working atmosphere, good wages, profit sharing, and the knowledge that no employees had ever been laid off at the company. This feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage intrinsic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 1993 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Sears Auto Centers (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
The CEO of Sears must decide how to respond to allegations that the company's auto repair division has been misleading consumers and charging them for unnecessary repairs. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
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  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

businesses in this country. Without listening, the organization (and its stakeholders) can't properly adapt to customers or the marketplace. How do you motivate business leaders who are not good listeners to become so? Force of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay is generally not that it fails... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

it even takes more effort to sign up for the program,” says Zlatev. In fact, in a follow-up study, not yet published, he and Kristal found evidence that the person who chose to use the commitment strategy was more intrinsically motivated... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Freeman would ask, "... how will the selected individual handle power?" Edward Hare suggested that results fall short of expectations "... because we don't understand motives (of the candidate for the leadership position)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

fostering a culture of experimentation, or of inclusion, can also be powerful, as is giving employees a feeling of kinship and opportunities to put smiles on customers’ faces by enriching and improving their lives. Whatever the mechanism,... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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