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- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Bank of America (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Describes how Bank of America is creating a system for product and service innovation in its retail banking business. Emphasis is placed on the role of experimentation in some two-dozen real-life "laboratories" that serve as fully operating banking branches and as... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Failure; Banks and Banking; Learning; Banking Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bank of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-022, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 26 Oct 2012
- News
4 ways to be more productive at work
- October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
Kaplan, Robert S., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 111-049, October 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model... View Details
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
my business skills. I resolved to apply to the 2+2 Program in order to develop my foundational general management skills. I saw the 2+2 Program as a no risk, high reward opportunity to secure a spot at HBS, enabling me to experiment... View Details
- February 2010 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
The Vitality Group: Paying for Self-Care
Vitality is part of a $2 billion start-up South African and U.K. health insurance firm. It has achieved excellent results in rewarding people for promoting their health. It is now contemplating how to enter the U.S. market. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Vitality Group: Paying for Self-Care." Harvard Business School Case 310-071, February 2010. (Revised February 2021.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Societal Protocols
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., and Andreea Gorbatai. "Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-055, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, March 2013.)
- 15 Dec 2014
- News
The Benefits of Cost Transparency
- 11 Nov 2014
- News
Young, Qualified, And Constantly Job Hunting
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the industry; Enron analysts... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
leverage my experiences to help others achieve their goals, which feels like the perfect culmination of my career journey. I had some terrific mentors and advocates throughout my career, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to pay that... View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain
By: Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar
Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of... View Details
Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain." Chap. 9 in The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption, edited by Stephanie D. Preston, Morten L. Kringelbach, and Brian Knutson, 163–184. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
- 03 Dec 2010
- News
When honesty isn't always the best policy
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
career journey. I had some terrific mentors and advocates throughout my career, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to pay that forward. Some of my proudest career accomplishments have been mentoring others as they navigate their own... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Nov 2011
- News
Cocoa's Woes Set to Dissolve
- 31 Oct 2022
- Video
Health Minute: Susanna Gallani
- 18 Feb 2015
- News
Reinvent Your Sales Process While Still Hitting Your Numbers
- 2014
- Article
Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off
By: Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin and Michael I. Norton
While a great deal of research has shown that people with more money are somewhat happier
than people with less money, our research demonstrates that how people spend their money also matters for their happiness. In particular, both correlational and... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Well-being; Happiness; Money; Spending; Welfare; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Dunn, Elizabeth W., Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I. Norton. "Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off." Current Directions in Psychological Science 23, no. 1 (February 2014): 41–47.
- Article
Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Perception
Kirgios, Erika L., Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman, and Judd B. Kessler. "Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 29 (July 21, 2020): 16891–16897.