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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital media, restaurants, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
approach not just to insurance and reimbursement, but also to the places where medical services are delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed, the way we educate medical professionals, and who performs... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Healthy Buildings John Macomber and the Harvard Chan School’s Joe Allen published a new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, and gave a virtual talk sponsored by Baker Library in April. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
boarding school,” says Clay. “They’ve entrusted you with their prized possession and expect you to manage it properly.” Once the owners have settled on a home for their horse, the farm manages the syndication process for a fee, selling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
has become lower.” It’s not just institutional investors who have turned to real estate. “Whether you are an individual investor or a hedge fund, having another asset class whose performance is not tied to stocks and bonds is very... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
reject." To avoid generating only "a grossly ethnocentric set of values," continues Salter, explorations of performance hypotheses require a diverse student body. "We also need to be alert to the fact that different cultures place... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
conventional rules for success aren’t enough. There is another set of expectations that determine who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Top performers follow these patterns without realizing it—and managers View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
selfies, where you can take a picture of yourself in Glossier pink and share that on social media. They might serve a small number people during a pop-up experience, but if those people send that message out on social media, the effect is an exponential multiplier.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
and they will expect that richness. Outside the benefits of cost reduction, do you see opportunities within the next two to three years for AI to lead in areas of revenue generation? —Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15, 2013) SESERI: It’s tempting to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
the semester. How you begin will set expectations. The tone, the use of the boards, and the spatial distance between you and the students communicate your intentions. How loud you speak matters. It all matters. It matters because the students have View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
performing but of a demographic that we expect in that role rather than a higher performing person that's not in that demographic. It happened to be men and women in this case,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
perform perfectly. They focus myopically on success. That drive can lead to tremendous professional achievements. But as careers progress, continued success requires the ability to change and adapt to new conditions, to take the risk of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Should OnRamp hire locally with the expectation of being able to reap the benefits of an in-person experience at some unknown point in the future? Or should the founders commit to hiring the best people, regardless of their geography, and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
singing it.’” In an interview at her office in midtown Manhattan, Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and an accomplished gospel singer, recounts this story and others with the kind of informal ease you might expect from a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its stakeholders? A company's stakeholders should expect that the company will... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
timely information and to perform transactions quickly and economically have spurred organizational and strategic transformation. Customers' expectations and demands are escalating, as well. As Schwab's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
different expectations for clean identification. But, yes, we fundamentally know that we’re in it together. KC: I can give you an example. I wrote an experimental paper about men and women having different propensities to guess on... View Details