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- 20 Aug 2024
- Interview
Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a... View Details
"Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports." Cold Call (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, August 20, 2024. (Interviewed by Brian Kenny.)
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
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Business History - Faculty & Research
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details
- Profile
Joy Chen
experience with nonprofits, I felt that people often weren’t incentivized to create value in the most efficient way possible. The level of pay sometimes struggled to attract top talent, and there were lots of red tape. Ultimately, I... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
- 2012
- Book
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States
McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Harvard University Press, 2012.
- 23 Oct 2024
- HBS Seminar
Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra set out to answer a basic question: "Do employees work harder when they are paid more?" As Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, said in an interview, "Previous research has shown that View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
the debt pays the agencies for their ratings. Some have argued that this creates a potential conflict of interest. An alternative source of revenue for agencies that gets less criticism is through a “subscription” model, where investors... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
bouncing and charging the account another $70 in overdraft fees. Failing to pay those multiplying fees can lead the bank to close accounts—a stain on a consumer’s record that can have lasting ramifications. ChexSystems, the main consumer... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
promotions are few and far between. Pay differences add up. Workers in the top firms for compensation earn almost 2.5 times more than their peers in the same roles at the worst firms, which results in earning $1.5 million or more over the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
say, “Okay, let’s look at comp.” And you’d say, “Oh, I pay really competitive salaries and benefits.” Then I’d say, “No, let’s look at the real comp.” Real comp is the tangibles plus the intangibles in a job, and the number-one intangible... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Research Summary
Current Research
Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details
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The Caring Company
care crisis. The economics of care are misaligned in most companies. Employees don’t get the support they need for their caregiving responsibilities and employers pay the hidden costs, including turnover, rehiring, presenteeism, and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
prevalent in all kinds of businesses, and the use of non-cash methods, such as paying on tablets or apps, became more prevalent. That has led to situations in which “price framing” can nudge consumers into tipping in unaccustomed... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
to organizations? If you think so, you may want to stop reading here. If not, are there ways of capturing the deliberative advantages of bureaucratic decision processes without paying the price of so many meetings, delays, decision... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
first learned about the OneTen coalition from fellow CEOs, he told them, “I am with you ... I don't know if I can pay anything now. But I will pay you with all the heart, soul, and grit of this company to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details