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  • 28 Nov 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

on-the-job misdeeds served the purpose nicely. Those supporting the idea of a corporate board's creating an independent officer of compliance, reporting directly to the board, cited the need for visible action in the face of growing challenges posed View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 06 May 2019
  • News

What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

    Birth and Re-birth in Business

    Joe Lassiter, Harvard Business School Professor and Faculty Chair of Harvard's Innovation Lab, discusses how businesses can seize on new opportunities and re-invent themselves quickly and effectively at the Better by Design CEO Summit 2015 in Aukland, New Zealand.... View Details

    • 29 Oct 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can a Coffee Shop in Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities?

    Keywords: Re: Richard S. Ruback
    • 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
    • 27 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

    official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • News

    Investing in Tech That’s Worth the Wait

    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    In Harmony

    Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
    • 18 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

    they wanted "to avoid the consequences of bad publicity." “No longer can leaders be chosen strictly for their abilities” In so doing, these officials—including legendary head football coach Joe Paterno and President Graham... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Education
    • 05 Jul 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

    of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A)

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld
    Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (Internet) radio broadcasters, had just received bad news. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) had announced its decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Copyright; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Internet and the Web; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 06 Aug 2024
    • Op-Ed

    What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

    of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, in joint work with Joe Long, Carlo Medici, and Qian, we found similar results. After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew... View Details
    Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
    • 16 Aug 2024
    • In Practice

    Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

    Sucher: Dust off that COVID playbook After the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 64 percent of 1,024 US workers surveyed reported suffering—or seeing others suffer—poor treatment at work for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 30 Jun 2020
    • Book

    Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

    The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Getting Back on Course

    Superwoman Thanks to intense discussions over dinners with alumnae—the first of which was hosted by Welsh in New York—and to later conversations with faculty and other colleagues at HBS, Hart came up with a plan. The result is Charting... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 31 Oct 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

    priorities—things for which leaders are required ... And I certainly would not want large groups involved in developing vision, innovation, or strategy ...." Joe Violette added, " ... getting those ideas and solutions to... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 06 Jun 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

    created by customers and clients and their increasing expectations that we be available day and night. Even more can be laid at the feet of leadership. But ultimately the primary culprit is us. That's my sense of the comments concerning... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting
    • 01 Aug 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

    mistakes") while attempting to achieve the goals. Joe Violette advised that, in his experience, stretch goals "have only succeeded (when) they are developed by the project team" (vs.... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett