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- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
evaluate employees based on outcomes rather than hours spent working or seeming to work,” Brodsky says. When employees don’t have work to do, managers can reward them by allowing them to surf the internet, read, or play video games or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
dampens motivation. The research also suggests that it's important to pay attention to the timing of bonuses: a reward given at the end of a period is more motivating than one given at the beginning. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and talked through how they could improve. In the other, pairs of employees received a financial bonus based on their combined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
larger, but the potential rewards increase, too." “The risks increase as the size of the venue increases, but the potential revenue goes up as well” With arena performances, the Gaga team was looking at some $12 million in start-up... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Board Scorecard, and the Executive Scorecard. These Scorecards clarify goals, priorities, processes, and ownership, and define the linkages between desired financial results and the actions needed to achieve them. Context Professor Palepu... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
medical relief fund for employees diagnosed with COVID-19. To learn more, read What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis Jill J. Avery, senior lecturer of business Administration, C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator. Tip: View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
witnessed? A: There is a fruitful dialogue underway between people negotiating business, legal, and financial deals and their international counterparts faced with life-and-death negotiating challenges. Each group can learn important... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials should shift to View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
company’s competitiveness after the downturn ends? For the last five years, we have been studying layoffs and their alternatives. Our goal with this research is to help leaders understand when it makes sense for companies to use layoffs to address their View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
budgets and bonuses—by rewarding people purely for their accomplishments, not for their ability to hit targets—will we take away the incentive to cheat. Only then will we eliminate the budgeting incentives that drive individuals to act in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
sufficient passion for those tasks you choose to spend time on. This is a critical area of advice that I regularly give to MBA students as they are thinking about their first job and industry choice. The prospect of financial gain is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
Abstract—An essential element of capitalism is corporate reporting. Today’s capitalism is supported by financial reporting. Critics of today’s capitalism argue that it is too short-term oriented and rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
lead during a crisis such as the global economic crisis of 2008-09. I found that many failed to follow seven universal lessons for leading in crisis. I believe the root cause of the recent financial crisis was leaders who practiced... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
financial value. As Brown often says, “Aesthetics matter.” The business of aesthetics is built on storytelling, too. “You can have a well-developed sense of what is beautiful and pleasurable, but if you can’t communicate it, you probably... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
will have extraordinary impact, and funding the development of these platforms and user networks within which learning tools can be exchanged should be financially rewarding for investors. Q: How would you... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
even more difficult than in the past. Why the concern about coordination between sales and marketing? Every business exists for financial performance—making money. We know generally how to measure it across different companies and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Immediately after graduation, a significant majority of the graduates of the leading two-year, full-time MBA programs take jobs in financial services and consulting, driven in part by financial View Details