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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

accustomed to lecture-style learning, would respond to the case method. Those concerns were quickly put to rest. “When you think about it,” explains Nolan, “the challenges that they’re facing in managing large companies, motivating... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

    Rational Habit Formation

    Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests... View Details

    • 25 Oct 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

    committees would provide senior management with the value of their incentive compensation and examples of combinations of prices and vesting periods that correspond to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    Covering the Issues

    judgments." Several Bulletin authors considered the sometimes contentious relationship between profit motive and business responsibility in the politically tumultuous 1960s. "Is profit really our goal?"... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Payout Policy

    By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
    We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why firms pay out (agency, signaling, and taxes), the cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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    • 12 May 2016
    • News

    What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

    Dean Nitin Nohria penned a piece for the Boston Globe magazine that draws parallels between famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and modern space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Reflecting... View Details
    • October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
    • Case

    Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.

    Li & Fung, one of the largest export trading companies in Asia, works primarily as an agent to connect U.S. and European manufacturers and retailers of nondurable, mass-market consumer goods with suppliers located all over East Asia who manufacture products according... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Marketplace Matching; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States; Europe
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    • Web

    Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

    trajectory, but my motivation to make a difference as a patient has grown. I joined the Cure HHT board of directors in 2020 inspired by the challenge and vision to find a cure. As I became more involved with... View Details
    • 23 Nov 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?

    Keywords: by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Christopher Harris & Jung Sakong; Banking
    • June 2011
    • Supplement

    Arck Systems (F)

    By: Ian Larkin
    The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star” performers. The cases track a... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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    • September 2015 (Revised September 2020)
    • Case

    Gap Inc.: Refashioning Performance Management

    By: Joshua Margolis, Paul McKinnon and Michael Norris
    In 2014, clothing retailer Gap Inc. rolled out a new performance management process for headquarters staff that did away with a traditional rating and ranking system. The new process involved informal monthly meetings between managers and their reports, and it more... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Management; Retail; HR; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Management; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • winter 1980
    • Article

    Evolving Terms of Mineral Agreements: Risk, Reward, and Participation in Deep Seabed Mining

    By: James K. Sebenius and Mati Pal
    Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Mining Industry
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    • 27 Apr 2022
    • News

    Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions

    • 29 Apr 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

    Keywords: by Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton; Service
    • December 1998
    • Supplement

    General Bill Creech at Harvard Business School: October 6, 1995

    By: Michael C. Jensen
    General Bill Creech discusses motivation and change in the Tactical Air Command of the Air Force. View Details
    Keywords: Change; National Security; Motivation and Incentives
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    • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
    • Supplement

    YAAS's Service Center (C)

    By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
    This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Emotions; Values; Human Resources; Labor; Negotiation; Organizations; Social Psychology; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Kuwait; Middle East
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    • 1997
    • Chapter

    Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity, and Innovation: The Case of R&D Downsizing

    By: T. M. Amabile and R. Conti
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Research and Development; Working Conditions; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity; Innovation and Invention
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in... View Details
    Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Learning By Doing; Health Care Industry; Innovation; Identity Construction; Medical Error; Knowledge Development; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Work; Learning; Leadership Development; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States; Singapore; Asia
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)

    a media executive with 20 years of experience in strategy and business transformation who joined the foundation in February. “In AMP we talked about finding our North Star,” she says. “I’m fortunate because food is an authentic passion of... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey
    • March 2011 (Revised June 2011)
    • Supplement

    Arck Systems (D)

    By: Ian Larkin
    The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software company. The existing compensation plan is aggressive and highly rewards "star" performers. The cases track a... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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