Employee Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

frustrated employees among Japanese speakers, but also affected their work performance and promotions. The Favored Side Of The Strategy Her most recent research, though, flipped the question on its head. Her research team delved into how... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

business leaders. Martha Lagace: Why should companies learn more about the benefits of strategy maps? What could companies be doing better than they are now? Robert S. Kaplan: A strategy map provides a visual representation of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the entrenchment benefits vary according to initial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program). Health plans could choose to cover more services and treatments for competitive reasons, but they could not be forced to do so by lawsuits. This change would... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior View Details

23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

placement around this sales cutoff. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in activities to realize large, tangible View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

performance on business-relevant ESG issues based on a firm’s industry membership has a positive association with future financial performance. A company’s efforts to improve its social impact could result in cost savings, increased brand value, innovation, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

goals probably, but definitely commercial too. Businesses are here to make money. So we have ambitious goals that are energizing to everybody. It also has a sense of duties that we here have duties to our customers, to our communities, to our View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Dec 2020
News

Hour by Hour

for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,... View Details

November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
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Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion

By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain

Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry

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November 2007
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Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf

Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Patents; Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

been normatively accepted in a country or industry, the more it benefits a firm’s market valuation and revenue. These findings demonstrate the importance of the broader social contexts in shaping the consequences of gender diversity.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

shareholders? A: CEOs perceive integrative relationships as strategic alliances and investments that generate significant benefits to the companies. Those benefits vary from case to case but encompass... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

recipient leaves the company or fully retires." Measures on which options are based also came under fire. As Moris Simson pointed out, "In the last few years our society has ... ignored the need to have satisfied customers, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

instant-message chat volumes (-8.7 percent).” Companies may want to consider locating their knowledge-worker team members strategically. “Our results suggest that employees engaged in knowledge co-production place a strong premium on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

factory floor workers, that cut energy per unit of lip balm produced by 40 percent); “Dumpster dives” that bring employees face-to-face with the trash they throw away; and reimbursement for employees who buy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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