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- 28 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
Old-fashioned mentoring may be one of the most effective ways to improve job performance, but many mentorship programs don’t reach new hires who need guidance most, new research suggests. Newly hired employees at a United States call...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- January 2021
- Case
Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal
The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Decisions;
Finance;
Behavioral Finance;
Insurance;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Social Psychology;
Behavior;
Interests;
Motivation and Incentives;
Perception;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
North America;
United States
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Amitabh Chandra, and Amram Migdal. "Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex." Harvard Business School Case 921-023, January 2021.
- October 2001
- Exercise
Liability Problems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at...
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Cash;
Annuities;
Interest Rates;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Wages;
Problems and Challenges;
Value
Kaplan, Robert S. "Liability Problems." Harvard Business School Exercise 102-035, October 2001.
- April 2012 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Dovernet
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Information Technology;
Competitive Advantage;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Vancouver
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Dovernet." Harvard Business School Case 112-061, April 2012. (Revised February 2017.)
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
Early COVID-19 lockdowns sparked a contentious debate that rages on in the workplace: Can businesses thrive if employees continue to work remotely? Skeptical CEOs, such as the leaders of Goldman Sachs and Starbucks, say they need workers...
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by Ben Rand
Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two...
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- February 2024
- Supplement
JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership: What JTC Did and Its Impact
By: Ethan Bernstein
Nigel Le Quesne, CEO of Jersey-based financial services firm JTC, firmly believed that "shared ownership" was at the heart of his company’s successful track record. The firm had seen its revenues, profits, and number of clients and staff grow steadily throughout its...
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Bernstein, Ethan. "JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership: What JTC Did and Its Impact." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-707, February 2024.
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
the opportunity for self-expression is indeed directly related to employee retention. Lessons For Businesses For employers, the implications of the findings are pretty clear: "Given that the standard, organization-focused approach of...
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- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
“Missteps can be perilous for these employees,” Ely says, “because managers see their slip-ups as reason to write them off.” Meanwhile, those deemed stars are given the benefit of the doubt, even when they make mistakes. Ultimately, View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
debt, it was forced to declare bankruptcy. The bank was sold to ING for just 1 pound. Twelve hundred employees lost their jobs, some of them his friends. And Leeson was sentenced to six and a half years in a Singaporean prison. How could...
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- 12 May 2020
- News
Coronavirus and the future of the workplace: 8 trends to watch
- May–June 2019
- Article
Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Judith K. Wallenstein and Alice de Chalendar
In 2018 the Project on Managing the Future of Work at HBS teamed up with the BCG Henderson Institute to survey 6,500 business leaders and 11,000 workers about the various forces reshaping the nature of work. The responses revealed a surprising gap: While the executives...
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Management;
Employees;
Attitudes;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, Judith K. Wallenstein, and Alice de Chalendar. "Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 3 (May–June 2019): 118–126.
- March 2020
- Case
Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age
By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women’s health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered both a direct to consumer (D2C) product that anyone could use to book virtual appointments with health practitioners...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Strategy;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Stern, Ariel D., and Sarah Mehta. "Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age." Harvard Business School Case 620-035, March 2020.
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
The Future of the Office: Remote Work after the Pandemic
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
The main goal of any government should be, the authors maintain, to enlarge the pie of resources that society has available to distribute. This is done by identifying wise tradeoffs for society as a whole. But it's not just politicians who can View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the...
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by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jul 2015
- News
Work Schedules: The False Tradeoff Between Fair and Productive
- February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG
By: Belen Villalonga, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Vincent Dessain
Der Spiegel is Germany's most influential political news magazine. In the 1970s, its founder Rudolf Augstein gave a 50% ownership stake to his employees and sold another 25% to rival publisher Gruner+Jahr, but retained significant control during his lifetime by...
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Family Business;
Governance Controls;
Employee Ownership;
Family Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Journalism and News Industry;
Publishing Industry;
Germany
Villalonga, Belen, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Vincent Dessain. "Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG." Harvard Business School Case 208-096, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)