Pay - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

They have been able to walk away from homes they couldn't afford with, in many cases, no penalty. Meanwhile, responsible citizens, and their children and grandchildren, will pay in extra taxes to clean up the mess. Hardly any politician... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

concentrate on the human element, calling people rather than e-mailing them, talking about their family as well as their business. We also set our salaries higher than our competitors, and then add to them with pay based on performance.... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. 3 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code, businesses that “traffic” in Schedule I... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

Portrait Project

Sumit Malik

sweat in a brick kiln enabled the first in our family to go to college. I am indebted to my grandfather. His sacrifice is not mine to waste. I can’t pay him back, but I will pay it forward. In his footsteps,... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clinic) as part of their business model Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

were deciding whether to participate in a Series B round for PEGAfrica, which sold solar home systems in Africa via pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small payments via mobile money to pay off the solar... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2007-2009. When asked about the 19 potential factors that contributed to the crisis (see survey text), respondents identified the following as the top 5: financial engineering, mortgage lenders not paying attention to risk because they... View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

loses a star employee because it refuses to raise her salary to match a competitor's higher offer, the firm is not necessarily behaving irrationally; it may instead be constrained by an HR policy that restricts it from creating huge pay... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

post-HBS by industry. On the low side, Non-profit’s median salary is $95,000 while Consulting’s median salary is $145,000. Both numbers were higher than my O-3 over eight years pay rate even with “flight pay”, so I was confident I could... View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

paper doesn’t explicitly examine why government-funded patents are so important, Yao speculates that government institutions, relative to companies, tend to fund broader scientific initiatives that are more likely to lead to more novel discoveries. Government funding... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 May 2016
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

be a banker. We work with major endowments, foundations, and countries that entrust us with their money. We assist millions of people every single day—to buy their first home, get their first credit card, or pay for college. I have a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

the company. The program expanded beyond India to Germany, the United States, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, and Ireland. So far about 100 people have been hired for jobs including software developer or tester, business analyst, and graphic designer, and View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

matters. If people lack that meaning, it's very hard for them to stay intrinsically motivated and creative. Many managers don't realize how necessary it is to help people understand the importance of their work. A status quo bias. Some upper managers View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

receiving creativity scores 23 percent lower than the average of the other conditions. In the other three conditions, creativity was about the same.] "As human beings, we pay more attention to negative information because it is a signal... View Details