Rewards - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

the long run, I think this situation could have a positive impact on students' careers." For his part, Merrick relishes the tasks before him. "I love what I'm doing," he says. "The focus on Career Services and the challenges our office faces in today's economic climate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jul 2013
News

Making Lives Better

to knowing how to reward employees. "All those things you learn in business school make that successful," she says. In particular, Singer recalls her Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) class, taught by... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Profile

John Oxtoby

Many young people have watched “The West Wing;” John Oxtoby is one of the few who has actually worked in it. In a political career that began with Barack Obama’s Senate race in 2004, and culminated with policy responsibilities in the White House, John has seen the... View Details

03 Apr 2017
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS

and American students themselves have often lived in two or three different countries. It’s been particularly rewarding to be able to discuss topics from Chilean copper to nightlife in Tokyo with both Chilean and Japanese people but also... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Righting the Ship

engineers. Right off the bat, Stuckey identified two issues. One, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level. And two, the way the funds were being distributed at the headquarters level was problematic as it View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Sep 2020
News

Lifting Fallen Families

fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The emotional View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

— she’s able to walk downstairs and have dinner with her family most evenings, an enviable commute. “It’s been very rewarding to make this work,” says Union. “It may not have seemed possible initially, but sometimes we set up our own... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Student Association | MBA

Student Association The Student Association (SA) is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty and administration. Its goal is to represent the student body in making the HBS experience as rewarding and enjoyable as... View Details

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

United Way. “It’s very rewarding to be able to support the many organizations important to our community,” says Brierley. Learn how you, too, can make a bequest to HBS. View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia

BCARD, a lifestyle and brand-focused rewards program, but executives were uncertain about the card’s effectiveness. When the students interviewed customers about their use of the card, they discovered that people at first were often too... View Details

20 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to be a Customer

you'll do. Don't keep the salesperson waiting if she's come to your office for an appointment. Pay on time. Don't try to nickel and dime the seller. Don't ask for free value-added services that weren't part of the original deal. Be Surprising. View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

Profile

Ryu Kawano

office." The experience proved so rewarding that Ryu, with two HBS colleagues, submitted an entry in the social-venture track to the annual Business Plan Competition in April. "We want to create a microfinancing organization in... View Details

09 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

rewarding experience for me – the classes and guest speakers were terrific and now I’m working in the field with an organization focused on reducing health disparities. These are just three examples of opportunities to engage with the... View Details

Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

Organizational Behavior program is simultaneously the most challenging and rewarding aspect of my experience at HBS. Being part of two campuses can sometimes be hard. I spend my days shuttling between the Organizational Behavior unit at... View Details

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had rewards programs, fancy... View Details

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

Now a new look at the issue makes the case for selective protective acts as a way of avoiding the disruptions to businesses and labor associated with a free trade policy that rewards and penalizes businesses with increasing speed. (These... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

strongly rewarded for a positive result," says John, now an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. This system can drive researchers to bend the rules to get a desirable outcome. Sometimes researchers commit... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

"best places to work" both in the U.S. and the U.K., is related positively to economic performance. Further, intrinsic rewards, such as capable colleagues and recognition for good work, play a larger role in worker satisfaction than extrinsic View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

on a well above average 91 percent, and providing feedback on 83 percent. So why wasn't this organization rewarded with a better organizational climate and performance? Tucker and Singer went back to the interviews and observational data.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

in which it is carried out. Joe Schmid observed that "both medical doctors and organizational managers work in cultures that are historically problem definition poor and solution rich. Their individual rewards systems are both driven... View Details