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  • 25 Feb 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS

Greetings! My name is Alonso Lucero, and I’m currently a first year student at HBS. Prior to HBS, I worked in consulting, social impact venture capital, and data analytics.  I chose to attend Harvard Business School for three primary... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. 8 weeks 5-6 hours per week 6 modules... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

unobtrusively measured their eye movements. The researchers parsed the camera data with the help of computer vision software that evaluated emotional response based on variations in facial features. Click to watch. Meanwhile, the eye... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
  • Case

Merloni Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
The general manager of the recently-established French subsidiary of an Italian appliance company is in conflict with headquarters about unexpectedly poor financial performance. Headquarters management believes it should be able to exert more control over the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Power and Influence; France; Italy
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  • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in this country have no internal... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • November 1995 (Revised February 2017)
  • Supplement

Luna Pen (B)

By: Kathleen McGinn and Michael Wheeler
Presents a series of multiple choice options to be distributed and discussed in class. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Strategy; Negotiation Tactics; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Culture; Power and Influence; Germany; Taiwan
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  • 20 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic status based on education, income, and geographic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel
  • 26 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

evaluating companies. These projects include building and presenting a market map in an area of interest and working directly with a portfolio company. Projects are customized to align with company needs and students’ interests and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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  • Profile

Matt Segneri

led him to Mayor Cory Booker's Newark office where he helped shape local economic development strategies. Another involved managing the Social Capitalist Awards, a collaboration between Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group. "We... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

products with various levels of cost and provider choice. Its impressive organic growth also has many lessons on how to train and evaluate people. Modeled after HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg's highly successful Agribusiness Program,... View Details
Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • October 2023
  • Supplement

Making Progress at Progress Software (B)

By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
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  • April 2011
  • Teaching Note

Porcini's Pronto: "Great Italian cuisine without the wait!" (Brief Case)

By: James L. Heskett and Richard Luecke
Teaching Note to 4277. View Details
Keywords: Franchising; Syndication; Quantitative Analysis; Performance Measurement; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods; Franchise Ownership; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation
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  • April 2011
  • Article

Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success

By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations to learn from success than to learn from failure. Success creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Failure; Success; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

accounting for both personal and social activity, and encourage customers to interact with each other postadoption. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54735 January–February 2018 Organization Science Gender... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2002
  • Background Note

Incentive Strategy Within Organizations

By: Brian J. Hall
This case serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Problems and Challenges
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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

risks they present for brands. The case allows students to grapple with the strategic and tactical decisions that accompany marketing communications strategy and to combine information on consumer behavior with an understanding of brand objectives in order to assess... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge

Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming). (Pre-published online.) Access the article Featured Faculty and Collaborators Jon M.... View Details