Willingness To Pay - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

clip, then a contract designer may be prudent while you iterate on your MVP. You may pay a little more per hour for these contractors, but that far outweighs over hiring and paying a full-time salary early... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

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... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

a successful family as it is in building a successful business. He disagrees strongly with the widely-cited concept known as agency theory, which essentially posits that people work in accordance to how you View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Disruptive Strategy... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

low-cost handsets and the opportunity to buy airtime in advance. "A subscription model doesn't appeal to the poor at all," Rangan says. "They don't want to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

non-committal prices. That is, until Birchbox came along in 2010 with an innovative offer: Pay a monthly fee and receive a curated box of beauty samples by mail. “They said, ‘We're going to start off doing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

12 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

– and it's okay if they're complex or thorny." Give yourself permission to not know exactly what you want or where you're going. Instead of a plan, coaching participants are better served by bringing an open mind and a View Details

2013
Working Paper

International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical and biotech research, he says... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

develop other complementary capabilities. In terms of developing leadership talents in particular, it can pay to look for stretch assignments involving change. Some examples include introducing a new product... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

experience of America’s lowest wage earners—those earning below $40,000 a year—when it comes to upward mobility? Are workers able to aspire to an increase in View Details

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

out to be misguided. Warby Parker went out of its way to win this trust by explicitly welcoming employees to take risks, show creativity, and express themselves (another of the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

11 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

business school. I love being part of a community of people who care about each other and work so hard to pay it forward. The community’s values are an extension of the military culture that I left behind,... View Details

Research Summary

Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

02 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

up and pay dues for 5-10 clubs immediately. Attend the first couple events of a few clubs you’re considering and then commit to ones where you are most excited. Few students report being actively involved in... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Dennis Campbell, Srikant Datar, and Susan Kulp (2015). Ethan C. Rouen : Winner of the 2018 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "Rethinking Measurement of View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Italy, and Levy’s initial intuition seems to be paying off. In 2023, the company rolled out a first-generation quantum computer, SEEQC Red, which used conventional room-temperature control equipment View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

that if 10 percent of Kahawa’s customers are willing to pay more to support fair labor practices, it could be life-changing for the women of the Kenyan coffee industry.... View Details

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