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- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and over optimism that drive our...
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by Amelia Kunhardt
- November 2011 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
Underwater Engineer at Intel Corporation
Molly Miller, an Intel employee and shareholder, must decide whether to vote FOR or AGAINST Intel's proposed 2009 option exchange program. Given recent declines in Intel's stock price, more than 99% of Intel's outstanding employee stock options are "underwater," and...
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Mayfield, E. Scott. "Underwater Engineer at Intel Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 212-047, November 2011. (Revised September 2012.)
- December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Tesco Plc.
By: David E. Bell
Tesco, a supermarket chain, has been transformed from a third-rate retailer to a global leader in the past ten years. This case describes how that was accomplished. Interviews with Tesco employees explain the company's approach to understanding customers, motivating...
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Keywords:
History;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leadership;
Internet and the Web;
Supply Chain Management;
Global Strategy;
Globalization;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry
Bell, David E. "Tesco Plc." Harvard Business School Case 503-036, December 2002. (Revised October 2006.)
- 27 Oct 2011
- News
Persistence Is Best Predictor of CEO Success
- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Bank of America (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Describes how Bank of America is creating a system for product and service innovation in its retail banking business. Emphasis is placed on the role of experimentation in some two-dozen real-life "laboratories" that serve as fully operating banking branches and as...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation and Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Change;
Failure;
Banks and Banking;
Learning;
Banking Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bank of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-022, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- Research Summary
Non-Monetary Compensation as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Non-monetary compensation consists of things individuals get from their work that cannot be converted into currency in any way (e.g. duty, meaning and joy). Through an in-depth, case-based, examination of a number of organizations relying on non-monetary... View Details
- August 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Toby Norman: Is Passion Enough for Simprints to Thrive?
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Amram Migdal and Max Hancock
As co-founder and CEO of Simprints—a social enterprise with the mission to “transform the way the world fights poverty"—Toby Norman was at a crossroads. His organization had developed ground-breaking technology used to verify aid delivery, reached more than 2.5 million...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Motivation and Incentives;
Social Enterprise;
Employees;
Growth and Development Strategy
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Amram Migdal, and Max Hancock. "Toby Norman: Is Passion Enough for Simprints to Thrive?" Harvard Business School Case 424-015, August 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Leading Change at Simmons (A)
By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus and Kate Roloff
Explores the challenge of managing large-scale organizational change at Simmons, an old and established company that manufactures and distributes mattresses. The new CEO, Charlie Eitel, hired to turn the organization's performance around, considers whether to implement...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leading Change;
Employee Relationship Management;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Casciaro, Tiziana E., Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus, and Kate Roloff. "Leading Change at Simmons (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-046, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- January 2005 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox through the Perfect Storm (A)
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In 2000, Xerox faces bankruptcy amid a liquidity crisis, collapsed profitability, and an expanding SEC investigation. Traces the career and leadership development of Anne Mulcahy, a former sales executive unexpectedly named COO of the beleaguered company as a last...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Financial Liquidity;
Organizational Culture;
Crisis Management;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Gender;
Corporate Governance
George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox through the Perfect Storm (A)." Harvard Business School Case 405-050, January 2005. (Revised July 2010.)
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
dark side of employee motivation programs: When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions Leading up to the financial crisis, bank loan officers were often incentivized to approve sketchy applications. But...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?
behave when they experience higher levels of passion. Among their findings: Supervisors are more likely to perceive extroverted employees as passionate compared to introverts, even when the two groups report similar levels of excitement...
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by Ben Rand
- October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Management Teams;
Leadership;
Balanced Scorecard;
Strategic Planning;
Balance and Stability;
Motivation and Incentives;
Communication Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Auto Industry;
Brazil;
Germany
Kaplan, Robert S., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 111-049, October 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
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Governance Controls;
Employees;
Wages;
Measurement and Metrics;
Outcome or Result;
Performance;
Agency Theory;
Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Too Motivated?" Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4547-05, April 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
How to Lead an Introvert-Friendly Meeting
- April 2018
- Article
Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices
By: Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Bradford Baker and F. Gino
In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and...
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Derfler-Rozin, Rellie, Bradford Baker, and F. Gino. "Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 2 (April 2018): 615–636.
- 27 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
- 19 Aug 2011
- News