Rewards And Penalties - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

with our partnership with Ed Colligan [Handspring’s cofounder and SVP of sales and marketing], one of the most rewarding aspects of the whole Palm/Handspring experience. Did... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

Student-Profile

Business Economics program that there are very few non-research-related demands on our time after the second year, so we can truly focus on research and learn by doing. The most rewarding part has been the... View Details

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company? Should I Keep Control Of My Company? Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

7-Eleven? ” says Rothrock. “Of course they do. But we make the penalties harsh. We make the capability to catch them high so that they think twice about it, and that’s what we’ve got to do with cyber.” But... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

and well-being of others.” He thinks these virtues are not often reflected in what actually happens in real organizational life. Instead, the leaders he sees commonly exhibit immodest, inauthentic, dishonest, untrustworthy, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

and for what share? Or has the culture of "free" become so deeply imbedded in the minds of a new generation of users that content developers can only hope for partial, occasional, or eventual financial View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

would-be backers a realistic idea of what magnitude of reward they can expect and when they can expect it. A great business plan is not easy to compose, Sahlman acknowledges, largely because most... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

Student-Profile

Hummy Song

within management. This uncompromising rigor and the stellar faculty lay a strong foundation for incredible research. Another aspect of this program that I find unique and View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Supplying Demand

calling all the signals and plugging the holes," he says he has now learned to "let go of the nitty-gritty and let people do their jobs. " He adds, "The most rewarding thing in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

in which it is carried out. Joe Schmid observed that "both medical doctors and organizational managers work in cultures that are historically problem definition poor and solution rich. Their individual... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

measuring and evaluating performance in the firm; and a system for rewarding and punishing individuals for their performance. The theory... View Details

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Partners & Families | MBA

HBS Student Association strives to create an invaluable and rewarding MBA experience for students and partners. Partners are welcome at all events! The Student Association... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on his grandfather’s farm picking... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Oct 2002
News

Making a Difference

alumni donors, the program aims to expose students to the rewards and challenges of the public and nonprofit world, while providing the communities View Details

Profile

Kimble McCraw

impact." Experiences outside the classroom have been rewarding as well. Over winter break, Kimble joined a number of HBS colleagues on the Silicon Valley trek. "We met with VC firms, start-ups and... View Details

Profile

Kevin S. Rollag

nuances — legal, ethical, and global — of all this unbounded technology," says Kevin. "I needed a comprehensive introduction to business fundamentals while getting a high-level vision of how organizations are put together."... View Details

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