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  • March 5, 2022
  • Article

Hospital Capacity Shortages: An SEC-Backed Transparency “PULL” Will Open Beds Faster Than a “PUSH” by HHS

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
In the new normal of ongoing pandemics, hospital bed shortages will continue. Healthcare innovation expert and author of the upcoming book Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models (Wiley, 2023, 978-1119543008), HBS... View Details
Keywords: Hospital Capacity; Access To Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Capacity; Planning
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  • 28 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

really matters in the workplace is helping employees feel appreciated.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • June 10, 2021
  • Article

How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World

By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities
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  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Collaboration; Executive Search Firms; Consulting Firms; Compensation and Benefits; Restructuring; Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Consulting Industry; Employment Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America; Oceania
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  • May 2017
  • Article

Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under Information Asymmetry

By: William Schmidt and Ryan W. Buell
Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff between making an optimal decision and... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Research; Information Asymmetry; Signaling; Decision Choices and Conditions; Alignment
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    How to Really Motivate Salespeople

    Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab experiments. But in the past decade, researchers have been moving out of the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: First Look: October 10

    broad-based therapies. Instead, the focus should be on enrolling subpopulations, based on diagnostic testing, in trials of targeted drug treatments and on monitoring and assessing effectiveness after drugs... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

    violations and penalties issued by 44 regulatory agencies, during the period between 2000 and 2017. First, they obtained digital maps of 3G network coverage, determined the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology
    • July 2006 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.

    By: Dennis Campbell and Donglin Xia
    Chairman Yin Jiaxu must communicate that the company's extraordinary reported performance in 2002 reflects Changan's unique strategy within the competitive dynamics of China's automobile industry. Changan's 2002 annual report demonstrated an extraordinary level of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Media; Business and Shareholder Relations; Auto Industry; China
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    • 25 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?

    Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell & Frances X. Frei; Banking
    • Working Paper

    Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

    By: Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew and Amitabh Chandra
    Rising list prices are often used to illustrate the burden of prescription drug spending, but payers routinely negotiate rebates from manufacturers that generate differences between list and net prices. List prices are easily available and affect patient cost-sharing,... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Rebates; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Price; Analysis; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

    By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
    Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"―delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Competitive Advantage
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    • 13 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

    officers receive small rewards for loans that perform well and small penalties for loans that perform badly); and the high-powered incentive (in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

    life that includes rest, relationships, and a rewarding career. Is AI Coming for Your Job?In a post-AI world, where an algorithm can draft marketing copy—or even pop songs and... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost

      Shaking the Globe: Courageous Decision-Making in a Changing World

      We live in a highly interdependent world where 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside the U.S. Two-thirds of the world's purchasing power is also outside the U.S. Shaking the Globe guides everyone on how to absorb the... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Current Research

      Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

      • 17 Jan 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: January 17

      forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

      Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson experienced her first big-stakes professional failure when she was just starting out in her academic career, some 30 years ago, after a decade working in engineering and consulting. Little... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 16 May 2023
      • HBS Case

      How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

      workers like his father a share of the profits and get them to think like owners. The case studies, written by HBS Professor Dennis Campbell and assistant professor Ethan Rouen, describe the sea change in... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • Web

      Employment | Harvard Business School

      University offerings can be found here. Compensation & Salary Grades Harvard offers competitive salaries that are designed to attract, retain, and reward the performance of talented employees. Frequently... View Details