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- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
and for what share? Or has the culture of "free" become so deeply imbedded in the minds of a new generation of users that content developers can only hope for partial, occasional, or eventual financial rewards for their efforts?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
including hiring, training, and firing personnel. All reward teams at all levels for performance. All provide generally unmonitored time for employees to develop product and service innovations as well as either redesign their jobs or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
not depend on self-selection (Studies 3 and 4) and it is not due to the accrual of undeserved financial rewards (Study 4). Cheating is associated with feelings of self-satisfaction, and the boost in positive affect from cheating persists... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
focus not just on financial rewards but on recognition as well. To that end, Lerner recommends that firms host innovation contests, wherein individuals or teams receive prizes for solving internal problems or creating new products—noting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
been a deliberate business for a long time. Now it's not so deliberate at all. We say, lighten up. The dead serious stuff doesn't work." 2. No risk, no result: The public enjoys playing with brands, so companies should decide if they want to invite this playful... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
it's just funny—evoking small moments of giggly joy, culminating in the big moment when everyone is rewarded with a beer bash. Teixeira notes that Budweiser has garnered similar surprise-inducing success by featuring barely censored... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
usually creates a massive gap between what people know and are able to do, and what they are now expected to do. This creates the need to invest heavily in human capital. Given a longstanding culture that values egalitarianism and rewards... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
compensation is lower across the board. Very few women are serial entrepreneurs. Consequently, they are not in a position to stake their new ventures with the rich rewards that might come from selling an enterprise. Many women choose... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
advice, and I do recognize and reward people who are doing a good job." Pride In Numbers As Unocal's Thompson and Aetna's Schlichting show, a strong bond between manager and employee is an essential element in pride building.... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
rewarding to deal with issues that were so important and formative of this country. The combination of Hamilton and Gallatin's thought still defines the tensions in American political economy as we know it today." Julia Hanna: How... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
back into Wiedeking's shoes at that moment in time. While students already know that the Cayenne turned the company around, we ask the students to weigh the risks and rewards of entering the SUV market and where to locate the new plant.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
communication flow. Environments where risk-taking is championed and visibly rewarded rather than punished, where leaders have good personal as well as technical skills, and where factors that create psychological distance between bosses... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
for others. Gordon Bethune said that he was getting an award because of everyone else's hard work. Ivan Seidenberg could share the CEO role twice in the mergers that produced Verizon because he put the needs of the institution first, over his own ego. The View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
We see author-level ranking as one filter for navigating the scholarly literature and note that such rankings generate incentives for more open scholarship, as authors are rewarded for making their work available to the community as early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
student the challenges and rewards of learning to be a more skilled negotiator. Negotiation requires the integration of keen analytic insight with emotional intelligence capabilities. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and value of specific interstate relations. Results indicate that network-weaving organizations are easier to operate when they encompass proximate and similar actors, yet they also reap rewards for bringing together otherwise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
restaurants. This case examines four such services: Entertainment Book, Restaurant.com, Rewards Network, and OpenTable. Despite key functional similarities, each of the services chooses an importantly different approach—different pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace