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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
communities. The motivation of the external innovators. Those motivated by extrinsic rewards like money and career may choose markets. Those motivated by intrinsic motivations like intellectual challenge and identity may prefer community.... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
undergraduate Arts & Sciences professor faces. I have to say, though, that ultimately it was the fact that my students were eager, well prepared, and really wanted the class to go well that made my job manageable and made the class a View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
that adherence to the Undefeated refinement is especially pronounced among subjects who report a high level of understanding of the game and that subjects whose choices conformed with the predictions of the Undefeated refinement were View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Resorts (B) faculty namesHarvard Business School Supplement 111-015 This case describes how employees are rewarded and compensated and is a supplement to "Aman Resorts." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
small win that builds the credibility of the leader. Confidence and winning streaks are built through small wins. Investing in people to show them that they are worth it. As opposed to holding out a reward for achievement of results, a... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
vital. Hanna: I just have to wonder, once you became an agent for women's basketball players, did you ever find yourself thinking, gosh, I could do this for men's basketball players and make so much more money? Why did you stick with the women? What's View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
prosocial spending did not provide an opportunity to build or strengthen social ties. Our findings suggest that the reward experienced from helping others may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse cultural and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he didn't get the team by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
said. "I worked my butt off." And it paid off. Continental hired her as a permanent, full-time financial analyst. She was thrilled; doing a job she found rewarding at the company she had always dreamed of working for. She met a... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
monetary rewards are at stake (Study 3). The tendency to infer dislike from dissimilarity is driven by a belief that others have a narrow and homogeneous range of preferences (Study 5). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
The authors identify the organizational levers that companies and frontline managers have at their disposal as they try to meet workers' deep needs. Reward systems that truly value good performance fulfill the drive to acquire. The drive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is common in many countries, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
implement at my current job. All in all, HBS was a tough but rewarding experience." Before matriculating at HBS, Slovakian student Monika Kubicova (MBA '96) chose to prepare by gaining work experience both in her home country and in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or whether, instead, it simply... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
for being a competitive aggressor, small brands are rewarded when they compete aggressively. Our findings illuminate how small brands can benefit from the presence of a large competitor and provide a process understanding of how consumers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group integration across multiple offices, and rewards for attorneys who shared responsibility, had contributed to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
for example, I track how much I floss. And in many ways that's just as a way to encourage myself to floss more. I just often forget. For the fitness ones, I actually have a point system. And the points literally mean nothing. I share them with nobody. And in fact, even... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of movies for a long, long time," says... View Details