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- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
and it is incredibly rewarding to meet the young men, who are energized to start anew if only someone would give them the opportunity,” MacDonald observes. Reset started with 10 students in a daytime pilot program in San Francisco. Not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
equity is a very good business to be in. I think finance generally provides an enormous number of opportunities for young people. It’s a business that highly rewards and appreciates very smart, very analytic, very driven, and highly... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
spaceflight to lightbulbs. But do these rewards really spur inventors to new ideas they wouldn't have come up with on their own? That's the question Professor Josh Lerner set out to answer in recent research with Associate Professor Tom... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
also find evidence that the behavior of lower-level managers is consistent with the incentives created by the weighting of nonfinancial performance measures in promotion decisions. Managers in locations where there is a higher ex ante probability of promotion and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
rewarding to operate from a place of strength. Be unapologetic about protecting your time with your family. You’ll make mistakes, but over time you will hone the ability to know what to attend and what to miss.” —Eva Heyman (MBA 2002),... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
for others. Gordon Bethune said that he was getting an award because of everyone else's hard work. Ivan Seidenberg could share the CEO role twice in the mergers that produced Verizon because he put the needs of the institution first, over his own ego. The View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
relatively low price of $1.1 million, develop it specifically for DMD, and let the VC investors reap the rewards when and if the drug was successfully commercialized. To make that happen, Williams said, the Secklers would have to shift... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
a novel customer rewards and loyalty app that has already gained commercial traction? Having nearly reached the end of Hatch’s runway, should he accept his partners’ offers to fund another Hatch vehicle, or should he pursue one of his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
chapters so that students are prepared for the rewards and challenges they will face in the professional cost accounting world of today and tomorrow. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53893 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for masculine displays of prowess and interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. In this case, organizational features designed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
sector to help you eschew the cult of ambition and experience the freedom of building the flexible, fulfilling, and sustainable life you want. Drawing on research, case studies, and her own experience, she walks you step-by-step through the process of designing a... View Details
- 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
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
the MBA Program "with the hope of obtaining the same goals, satisfactions, and rewards as the men." A 1966 article by Judith S. Chadwick (MBA '65) addressed some of the difficulties those first women students encountered, including... View Details