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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
have to know a fair amount of neuroscience. And if you’re a good neuroscientist today, you have to know a fair amount of social psychology and basic social science. These are... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
important person in the company,” and encourage associates to feel psychologically safe and willing to take reasonable risks. “Observing John, I realized that the best leaders... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
participate in the equity markets unless they had a lot of money. In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower prices, View Details
- June 1993 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Duckworth Industries, Inc.--Incentive Compensation Programs
A private company is considering an introduction of a long-run incentive compensation system in which payoffs to managers are determined by the economic value added for shareholders by their individual business units. The proposed new system is compared to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value Creation
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Duckworth Industries, Inc.--Incentive Compensation Programs." Harvard Business School Case 293-091, June 1993. (Revised November 2007.)
- 1986
- Chapter
Promise Them Anything: The Incentive Structures of Local Public Pension Plans
By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Local Range; Motivation and Incentives
Leonard, Dutch. "Promise Them Anything: The Incentive Structures of Local Public Pension Plans." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- September 2010 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One - Multimedia
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110-707 View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
maximizing the number of service calls they needed to take. Leaders of these organizations create psychologically safe cultures, as my colleague Amy Edmondson would say. They invest in building trust to encourage employees to act View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
since 1955. We haven't budged. So, then I think about, look, we want it more than anything else, we don't got it yet, so what do we do? And then, we look at a lot of the emerging positive psychology... View Details
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Prita Kumar
person who makes the same mistake twice.” Being an entrepreneur requires a strong emotional and psychological makeup. How are you handling the ups and downs of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
self-cleaning rat cages for psychology labs. Learning that pharmaceutical companies use large quantities of rats, they negotiated a deal with him and over the next few months also executed a roll-up strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Law envisions will in fact be paved with many of the same advertising structures that have traditionally been integral parts of the ad industry. "In many ways, Internet marketing is actually mimicking the traditional formats View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
products. Shami's life and business experiences are detailed in his autobiography American by Choice . A. Robert Abboud, featured in the "Who's Who" section of the Almanac, holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
diverse professions in which they operate. Whether you examine law firms, advertising agencies, investment banks, or management consulting firms, the business model and the challenges they must successfully... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
implications for business. We stand at the cusp of very, very important changes in demography. For instance, more than half the people graduating from U.S. colleges today are women. In professions like law View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
- Supplement
Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)
A professor has an awkward exchange with a student who has prepared numeric analysis, but whose numbers do not agree with her own. View Details
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-406, July 2010. (Revised August 2012.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Above: Mountaineers Dick Burdsall and Terry Moore climbing Minya Konka, October 1932. (photographs courtesy University of Alaska Fairbanks Archives) This article relies upon Moore’s own published and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in 2008, however, the couple began to look for a place to live together and raise a family. At McKinsey, Moore was working on a project for Union Pacific (UP), headquartered in Omaha, a company of more than 46,000 employees signed into... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms with Sari Pekkala Kerr of... View Details