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- 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;
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Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Dovernet." Harvard Business School Case 112-061, April 2012. (Revised February 2017.)
- October 2023
- Case
Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
For more than fifteen years, successful Canadian entrepreneur and investor Kevin O’Leary had developed his brand into a global powerhouse. Since his first appearance on the Canadian television program Dragons’ Den in 2006 and his meteoric rise to stardom through the...
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Personal Brand;
Crisis;
Brands and Branding;
Entrepreneurship;
Crisis Management;
Social Media;
Public Opinion;
Power and Influence;
Financial Services Industry
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters." Harvard Business School Case 824-095, October 2023.
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
leaders should support and publicly tout their employees’ achievements, Gibson says. 5. Honesty is the best policy. Even when feedback might be tough for players to hear, Sanders believes it’s important to dole it out. Assistant coach...
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- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
mess up and what you learned. “It’s a great opportunity to show your honesty and vulnerability,” Brooks says. The master of the public failure strategy might be Princeton University psychology professor Johannes Haushofer, who posted a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
can embrace these contradictions and make trade-offs to accommodate them. Adds Tushman, "Some groups 'exploit' and some 'explore,' and you don't want to mix them. The locus of these controversial issues is thus at the highest levels." View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Wendy Zito believes that "when you feel you are being listened to then it helps you connect to the other person but it also helps you hear yourself." Gael raised the question to a more universal level with her comment: "Listening to oneself requires sometimes crude and...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
using drugs, prospective employers found drug users hireable 62 percent of the time, versus only 45 percent of the time for those who chose not to answer that question. Of course, such honesty has its limits, John hastens to add....
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
mindset and consistent behavior helps to create trust. Becoming known for inclusiveness and honesty helps others accept change and encourages them to put team success first and personal fame second. Getting in the game Sports teams may be...
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- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
However, higher wages could also be unrelated to theft if honesty only depended on the workers' moral values, if workers were unaware of wages paid by the competition, or if they overlooked wage deviations by reassessing the value of...
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- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
instead concentrate on ways to make our own decision-making processes more transparent to others and to ourselves. Edward Hare put it this way: "Openness and honesty are the sunlight that's needed to make decision making as effective...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
standpoints—layoffs; cost-cutting to the point where you know you're going to stretch your work force very, very thin; quality tradeoffs that may mean that you're not going to be delivering on what you say, and there may even be a safety factor. View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
stock returns can be a consequence of commonality in trading behavior. Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model Authors:Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis Publication:Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
story about any given product or service. Customers often find honesty in such crowd-sourced reviews, but they'll rarely find the expertise of an in-house curator. "The informed opinion of one expert who is motivated by a legitimate...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
he calls "the click heard around the world." Gerstner learned, as we have in our work, that the "free-for-all of problem solving" so essential for high performance "does not work so easily in a large, hierarchically based organization."...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
can crowd out other positive considerations. “When I am surrounded by my loyal brothers, I am thinking about related traits, like honor and honesty and integrity,” he says. “I care about my group’s image. But at the moment I am told this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
spends millions or even billions in developing a product to reveal its costs," Buell says. Raw Honesty Appreciated Yet in the retail industry—and perhaps in other industries where customers may take for granted how much effort and money...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Strive For Honesty Alongside Low Risk In most of the companies we've studied, managers discussed innovation-related problems with the few people they trusted but acted on their findings in more public venues. Since most managers fear that...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of the marketplace" and exemplify not just honesty but "the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean that a person of integrity has to do it. —Constance Bagley Corporate...
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by Carla Tishler
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
with unique (but are they mitigating?) personal circumstances. The third vignette puts students in the role of an employee conducting a bottom-up review, as he struggles to balance honesty with the potential repercussions of giving his...
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Carmen Nobel