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- 06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told
“cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes across as if someone is making a lot of money without any costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
organizations don’t completely understand how to plan for and deal with it.” Amabile also cited the need for further understanding of the motives and incentives that drive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
from mistreatment. The solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
"principles for getting a lot done." Now in his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours (Harvard Business Review Press), he shares more performance-enhancing tips on everything from how to sleep better on... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
underprivileged kids in skills and program in life management, so that they come out of poverty sustainably. We have about 4,000 kids graduating every year. And we have plans to do about 1 million people by 2020. “People have tried doing skilling View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
investments that could raise American productivity and living standards. “A handful of changes would transform the corporate tax system from an obstacle to an asset,” says Desai. He advises creating better incentives View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
brokers closed upon execution of the loan, not whether the loan performed. Lenders were paid for originating the loan, not, again, whether the loan performed. The incentives that were in place encouraged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
Image by Getty Images/Retrorocket What does it mean to be "successful"? How do you achieve your dreams? For many of us, it may mean creating an impressive list of achievements or gaining significant wealth, status, position, and power. It... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
as a base of operations for work in the twelve countries in the region. Yeh and her small staff are set up to provide a significant part of the intellectual and logistical support needed by visiting HBS scholars. Yet logistical help is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
is very granular. It's longitudinal, it breaks down by student, by geography. Pretty much any way you could cut it, it has good data. And for the longest time, we've been asking state leaders to make policies, decisions, around teacher... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which he is personal finance editor.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
For most executives, looking good and being fit are personal and professional goals. But as Richard Bailey (MBA ’81) notes, the business lifestyle, especially travel, often gets in the way. “Combine jet lag with hectic meeting schedules... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
despite the fact that her lungs, scarred from her treatments, were functioning at only 50 percent of capacity. Said Berté, who trained for four months to prepare for the Tour, “I never in a million years... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
studies do not exclude the possibility that cigarette advertisements in these magazines target adults, rather than youths. Second, these studies do not specifically examine advertising for the few brands that youths actually smoke. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
election process, from moving to a single primary ballot for all candidates to instituting nonpartisan redistricting. They also propose restructuring the governing process by aligning legislative and governance rules with the public... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
to launch than the sector in which he would be working. “We wanted to start a company that helps people and benefits society,” he recalls. The energy sector, which was at the beginning of what Riley calls the “renewable power revolution,” seemed ripe View Details