Employee Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

less vacation. Then you have phones, and you have access to work outside of work hours. Some of the research that I've looked at, as well, talks about the benefits of detaching from work. It studied View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are forced to pay bonuses and to bus workers long distances to fill essential blue-collar positions. Says Harvey, "Firms must respond... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 May 2023
Blog Post

6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process

but not limited to, race, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation) benefits an organization. In addition, if the “likeability factor” does matter to you as an organization and it impacts how View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

gathering in large groups. If we get to 40 or 50 percent occupancy rates by the end of the year, we’ll be doing pretty well. What will hotels need to do to make guests feel safe? MD: Hotels need to ensure their guests and their employees... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

future. Yet even as we adopt, adapt, and leverage new digital capabilities, we cannot lose sight of the way they will affect work, workers, and the workplace. For all the potential benefits of digital transformation, we have seen its... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

should your employees be to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company's success? (7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

attention? Safety, first and foremost. Any fatality is a terrible thing, and there were too many throughout the group, particularly in South Africa, where 44 employees died in accidents the year before I took over. Two months after I... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

they could turn themselves around and become profitable again. The company developed a soft approach, training its employees to develop relationships with customers, learning about their individual circumstances and counseling them on how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

the nature of technological discovery. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-038_54e189cf-0289-4cfc-b0da-e29552016f3b.pdf Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

the process of decoupling. Decoupling is the separation of two or more activities ordinarily done in conjunction by consumers-think of watching TV shows and sitting through the ads. These new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2003 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Ottawa Devices, Inc. (B)

By: Henry B. Reiling and Harry Clegg Midgley IV

The Rollins family assembly was meeting to discuss and decide which one or combination from among an estate freeze, installment sale of stock, ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), leveraged capitalization, annual gifts of stock, one-time outright gift of stock, or... View Details

Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Property; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Human Needs; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2006
News

Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

Association’s conference held on campus in early November. The three-day conference included presentations by industry executives, government officials, and HBS faculty on topics ranging from trends in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries to medical product... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating the organization's books. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

done. Any contractor offering a payoff to Roshan was immediately blacklisted. Any employee caught taking or offering a bribe was instantly fired. “In emerging markets, you have to be very persistent and clear in your messaging—dogmatic,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

characterized those urging patience. As he put it, “The computer was created by Babbage in the 18th century We only started seeing the pervasive benefits from computing in the last 10-15 years. Today’s innovations will bring real... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Trust Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg, and Julian Zlatev “People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet, little is known about the relational View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

research support in fiscal 2015 rose by $6 million, or 5 percent, from the prior year to $123 million. Salaries & Benefits Employee compensation is the School’s largest expense, comprising more than 40... View Details

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