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  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

Little & Company motivated board members of Gulfstream to sign up new clients: with model airplanes. The wealthy and influential members of the private plane company’s board reveled in the bragging rights conveyed by each individual model plane they View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2015
  • Article

Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits

By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement for mispricing in price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business Earnings; Fairness; Governance Compliance
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  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

datasets) is positively correlated with dispersion among experts' forecasts. Further we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made three-nine months before earnings report date for retailers and manufacturers to show that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

Abstract This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance tradeoffs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

PLD Module 5

Program for Leadership Development participants earn 10 PLDA Points on completion of this program. Alumni Status Upon completing PLD Module 5, you will become a lifetime member of the HBS alumni community—and gain exclusive View Details
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

work themselves, hold more supervisory responsibilities, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time. “Some asked if children of stay-at-home moms were happier,” McGinn says. “Many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

"Will we make something strong and good and wise out of all the destruction of the past two years?" Koehn is an authority on entrepreneurial leadership and history. Her previous books include Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

Fuller says—and every little bit counts. Fuller found that, if caregiving support prevented five employees from quitting, it would save the company $200,000. That math assumes the employees earn an average of $80,000 and carry a... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13754 Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

themselves to work, are more likely to be supervisors, and are more likely to earn higher wages than the daughters of mothers who stayed at home full time. The effects remained, even after controlling for... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Startup Culture.” Industry Access Fellows build a network of connections across the life science industry in various ways. They are matched with Key Advisory Board members who serve as their mentors throughout the program and attend... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

At the end of both math exercises, students were told how much they “earned” according to their performance. Workers earned $20, $15, or $10, depending on how well they did; firms earned $25 or $20. Everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The number of holes revealed the production rate for each worker. Researchers were unsure if productivity increased in this experiment because of the introduction of rest periods, shorter working hours, wage incentives, the dynamics of a... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

to shorten development lead times and increase capacity; it can facilitate access to skills, capabilities, and intellectual property (IP) that a firm does not possess internally; and it can allow a firm to acquire relationships and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research - Global

digital lenders use machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... 2025 Working Paper How Does View Details
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

introduced, and the hourly wage system was replaced by a system of base pay with productivity incentives for meeting targets. Service advisers were given product-specific sales quotas—sell so many brake jobs, shock absorbers, alignments,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

a job identified for the migrant, and they are approaching the immigration system in a strategic manner. Often, the main constraint is gaining access to the scarce visa supply—there are so many applications for H-1B visas that a lottery... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne