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- 20 Jan 2017
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Beating Pain with Brain Power
trials, and now - showing that there is a very big economic incentive to train medical teams in Comfort Talk. “One of my big passions right now is the opiate crisis. All efforts now are directed at the back end, treating either addiction... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Examining Global Workforce Management
As executives of an international company are considering workforce reductions in Europe and South America, they are providing layoff support to employees and working with communities to create incentives for new businesses to replace... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present
deter him from a path to leadership. “If there is one thing that I pride myself on actually understanding today, it is organizational behavior. My low grade in OB motivated me to really figure it out, because in my job today, it is far more about aligning View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
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A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only eight months. The commonwealth was not known for the generous... 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 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to solve it, encourage... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
we teach here," she notes. "One major goal of the Initiative is to feed international cases into the MBA and Executive Education Programs, in all fields of study. We're providing the incentive and the support so faculty can do that."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling... 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 for global... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
As part of its 100th anniversary (www.hbs.edu/centennial) party for faculty, staff, and students in April, HBS brought in Benjamin Zander (www.benjaminzander.com), a world-renowned conductor and teacher who heads the Boston Philharmonic and New England Conservatory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
Edited by April White Josh King(photo via LinkedIn) Josh King (photo via LinkedIn) “The first question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do I have something original to say, something that hasn’t been said before?’ ” —Josh King (PGL 2, 1999), public relations executive and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor Meg Berté (MBA 2000), who rode... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
in management control systems through research focused on the various issues related to the design and effects of performance measurement, evaluation and incentive systems, and, more recently, corporate control and governance systems. “In... 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 people working at various stages of the creative process. “I also... 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 Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to discuss View Details