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- 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.)
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
from 0 to 100 for these two extremes. Some inequality may be necessary to incentives for work and investment. But some equality is necessary if markets are to be created that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." Incentive structure is a big issue... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
that policymakers concerned with global public health must pay “dramatically greater” attention to vaccine-related issues. He pointed out that 3 million children worldwide die each year from diseases for which vaccines already exist. Even... View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
revolutionary improvement that creativity may bring. The need to understand creativity within the larger context: of teams, organizations, networks, and society-at-large. What did your participants identify as a research agenda for the... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
studies do not exclude the possibility that cigarette advertisements in these magazines target adults, rather than youths. Second, these studies do not specifically examine advertising for the few brands that youths actually smoke. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational redesign, population health management, precision medicine, patient engagement, digital health,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Controlling for alternative drivers of sales and inventory shrinkage, we find this change in incentive design to be associated with a profit improvement of 4.2% of sales. This work indicates that altering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
A recent study suggests that America’s political polarization is driven more by incorrect beliefs and stereotypes about the other side than distaste with those people. That should be good news for those wondering how to knit polarized... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
election process, from moving to a single primary ballot for all candidates to instituting nonpartisan redistricting. They also propose restructuring the governing process by aligning legislative and governance rules with the public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
economically and socially. It could be a critical tool for pulling a community together and provide an incentive for it to rebuild itself. It also avoided the appearance of... View Details
- 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
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
decisions be structured. They aim to prepare students for these decisions, both as entrepreneurs and as investors. The next three modules look at a variety of financing models across the venture's life cycle, with an aim to understanding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: Critical Questions View Details