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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and economic value. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
contending with this challenge, the designer of an incentive system—or someone trying to motivate themselves—faces an important tradeoff between inducing high levels of motivation and inducing the right types of behavior. All View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine what those View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
for the survey included primarily middle managers in manufacturing plants, although over time the data collection was extended to other industries, such as retail, schools, and hospitals. The approach was to interview those who were high... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
malapropism as saying, "take it." More than a funny Yogi-ism, the words suggest a fundamental truth for companies wanting not only to survive times of disruption, change, and surprise, but lead through it, Kanter suggests.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
“cloak” their most valuable trades. This takes the form, for instance, of a manager who sells her entire position of Microsoft on March 30, and then repurchases to re-establish the same position on April 1. This manager will economically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
improve how workers are treated or betters the environment. But new research from Harvard Business School and London Business School demonstrates the first real evidence that mandatory CSR reporting works, and could give policymakers and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
important fact: Not all customers are equally important to the firm. "You have to look at the net profitability of the retention campaign," Gupta says. "If I offer an incentive to customers most likely to churn, they may not leave the... View Details
- December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Fishbowl: Scaling Up
By: Leslie K. John
Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technologies; Customer Value; Value Chain; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Product Marketing; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Social Media; Communications Industry; Employment Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
John, Leslie K. "Fishbowl: Scaling Up." Harvard Business School Case 919-013, December 2018. (Revised February 2020.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
SolStock Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was known to criticize staff for being "coin-operated" instead of mission-driven. Understanding what motivates good performance is crucial for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details
Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-081, February 2009. (Revised August 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed “good-bye” payments if things do not work... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (C)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Compensation and Benefits; Surveys; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
adaptation house-by-house, right? We can provide incentives for folks to use the proper materials and to weatherproof their home, et cetera. But it has to be infrastructure. I spoke to the mayor of Boston... View Details