Best Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. More than... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

my new book Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how purpose-driven leaders find success by going beyond focusing only on shareholders and customers and also considering their employees, communities, and the environment. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

targets, but a tactical tool that’s rarely part of strategy formulation. Develop the best product, and let the sales department figure out the best way to get it to the customer, they think. And many sales... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

patriot’s one dollar a year. On January 26, 1942, Weinberg was made assistant to the chairman of the War Production Board....To get the numerous topflight young executives he needed, Weinberg called on practically every giant corporation... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

anti-bias training for Airbnb. Dr. Glick co-developed the warmth-competence model (with Susan T. Fiske, Princeton, and Amy Cuddy, Harvard), recognized as a "breakthrough idea" in the Harvard Business Review . His foundational work on benevolent sexism (with Fiske)... View Details

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

on which side you’re looking from.” It also expands the debate around similar practices in search-engine optimization. Just as marketers were able to figure out how to adjust product descriptions to rank higher in search engine... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

School's ongoing International Seminar Series. This area of research is of universal interest. After all, a basic question that any multinational business would like to answer is this: Is there a single business model or set of best View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

willing to give it. Several commented that the best source of measurement is from followers. Tan Chin Thuan's suggestion illustrates the challenge nicely when he said "The irony yet sobering measurement of leadership could well be,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This interest in private sector development in Africa is what motivated me to pursue a joint... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni

recognizes the importance of career development issues that may be associated with membership in a particular identity. Does your organization conduct a recurring culture and climate survey? Institutional cultural and climate surveys have emerged as a View Details

26 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial

with industrialization, urbanization, and corruption. HBS had been founded only 13 years earlier and didn't have a distinct pedagogy. However, my wise predecessor, Dean Wallace Donham strongly believed that the best way to teach business... View Details

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

of wariness by schools and teachers about how new practices will affect students is probably a good thing, says Kim. At the same time, business and technology still offer the best chance for implementing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

research and practice that can guide and improve the selection process and its outcomes. Their message was: "We know how to do it. And here's how." As Al Shealy commented, "The research isn't being used." Dan Erwin... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

distribution. Big Idea Group, by contrast, uses a low-overhead approach that welcomes any and all inventors. These "Big Idea Hunts," held at regular intervals around the country, allow inventors to present their ideas to a panel of industry experts. Collins's... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

use, including updating the associated incentive mechanisms. For example, European countries, particularly the United Kingdom's National Health Service, have gradually adopted bundled payments to prioritize patient outcomes and best View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

participants are generally concerned with questions such as: How do I improve quality in my service operation? How do I make my organization become more innovative? What should we do about the Internet? How do we deal with globalization? and, What can I do to transfer... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 May 2016
News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

résumé,” for example, are mantras that he is fond of sharing. By turning his life’s passion into his work and applying a rigorous discipline to his calendar, Tierney has built a life of purpose. The proud father of two grown sons who counts his wife of almost 32 years,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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