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Health Care “Redefining Health Care has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year. ...It is a rewarding read for anyone serious about... View Details

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

book is obsolete in an era where the greatest value a partner provides is in the ideas they possess and not the wage rate they pay. Partners must be encouraged to share ideas, which can only be accomplished if they share in the spoils that come from their realization.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

there and never knowing what’s around the corner.” Speaking of gold, the financial reward an independent producer can expect to see from a project varies greatly, with up-front freelance fees ranging from $150,000 to as high as $5 million... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

interplay. There were women in management, but they tended to be concentrated in the more routinized functions. And if you're in the more routinized functions, it's hard to break out, because you're not being rewarded for independent... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

traditional economic thought—which places self-interest as the guiding principle of human motivation—our findings suggest that the reward experienced from helping others may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

there were great rewards for VCs who focused on a very specific investment category, such as online pet food. You could invest in five or six companies in the same area and do quite well with all of them,” he explains. Now, across the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Less risky cash is better than risky cash. Don’t run out of cash! Use your cash to get smart. Use your resources to buy time to structure tests that reveal value-changing information. What can go right? What can go wrong? How can you manage View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

every part of the business and set targets and rewarded based on those targets. "Our model is that if we do a good job for our customers, they will recommend us to others, and they will become our advocates," Gooding said. "It will become... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper sheet. We only View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

each situation, the actions he took, the results achieved, and the specific lessons he learned. He provides a helpful, realistic picture of what it means to achieve a rewarding and happy career without reaching the very pinnacle of one’s... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

at 500 meters and silver at 1000, he showed his generosity and concern for those less fortunate by contributing his cash rewards from the U.S. Olympic Committee to a global charity that benefits children. Later this month, his picture... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

special behavioral challenges, particularly because he was not a doctor. Each medical chief was in essence a "mini-dean," the head of a largely self-contained department with its own faculty, staff, and resources. As academic researchers, they were View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

rewarded by GE. In contrast, a supplier of circuit boards to Ford Motor Company was never able to overcome a preoccupation with the contract terms. The supplier's failure to manage effectively this aspect of an otherwise promising... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

know prior to this program, to help solve a real-world problem was a lot of fun and rewarding at the same time. Cathy Xu: I was able to see the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
News

Helping Hands for HBS

Education courses she has taken. Margie Yang, chairman of Esquel Group in Hong Kong, also cites lifelong learning as a rewarding aspect of her ongoing relationship with the School. "As I get more involved with HBS, I become more... View Details

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

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

by leading multifaceted lives themselves. They can reward employees for the quality and results of their work rather than the time put into it. And they can enforce reasonable work hours, require vacations, and take other steps to protect... View Details