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- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
locations and retailers to provide ‘real world’ ($) rewards to players.” Many alumni see possibilities and potential in other areas: “Augmented reality can definitely revolutionize e-commerce and mobile-friendly brand apps,” said Ameera... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
Health Care During the internship, I had the opportunity to interview 30+ employees from their on-the-ground workforce to better understand their drivers of satisfaction and opportunities to improve efficiency. Through this, I gained insight into the unique challenges... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fish Story
percent, thanks to Bertarelli’s gift). An America’s Cup–winning sailor and scuba diver, Bertarelli estimates that the Chagos sanctuary’s protected fish population will grow by 150 percent in just two or three years. “Human beings like being View Details
- Portrait Project
Xavier Paternot
I want to build things and blow them up. I want to act irresponsibly. I want to play music. I want to be rewarded with a Nobel Prize if I save people lives and go to jail if I cheat. I want to keep on being fascinated every time I look at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building. Volunteer Catriona Fallon (HBS '01) worked at Boston Senior Home Care. "It was both View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
involves making strategic tradeoffs: choosing to overperform in highly valued services means underperforming in others. But the rewards are great, “So we work on helping organizations identify the net positives of tradeoffs and on making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
the library to meet with her discussion group and do research, and I answered questions she had about locating information for one of her course projects. It was very rewarding engaging with her over the years. – Cynthia 4. When They’re... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In one experiment, students had to come up with anagrams under the time pressure of 90 seconds per round, over a series of six rounds, with the understanding that they would be scoring themselves at the end of the test—and that they would be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
used to be a one-season event,” Wilkins noted. “Now most customers want to leave lighting up year-round because it signifies a special event.” Wilkins is excited by the prospect that more American cities may come to look like Hong Kong and thrilled to be involved in... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
alternative assets have dramatically altered the nature and level of incentives and rewards in our society, on both sides of the capital market. These changes have contributed significantly to the twin crises of modern American... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Courtney Behm
companies in trouble, executives failing to meet expectations, teams that could not work together. The most rewarding moments of my day were when someone would look at me and say, “Wow, I never thought about it that way!” Seven years... View Details
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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting
better understand their drivers of satisfaction and opportunities to improve efficiency. Through this, I gained insight into the unique challenges and rewards of rural health care. Hiring health care professionals, finding transportation,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Valentina Zarya
extended to all facets of my life and I was rewarded for it with acceptances to prestigious schools and a successful career. Through all of my shapeshifting, though, I lived in fear of others finding out that I, like my natural hair... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
Put differently, there appear to be fewer economies of scale in R&D than there used to be. The way companies define, measure, and reward excellent research has to change.—Henry Chesbrough So what specific things are small companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Michelle Lee
"loves the case method. You get to study so many different companies and industries, and you learn from your peers – the interactions between section mates are incredible." Her section experience has been so rewarding she took... View Details
- Portrait Project
Xiao Wang
I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a healthier life. One of the most View Details
- Portrait Project
Mora Segal
parents, who have both bettered society through public service. As a result, I even caved in to the HBS pressures of coming up with the dreaded 10- and 20-year plan to achieve my professional goals. But I have since come to realize that my most View Details