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- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
required." Whether this is the case or not, several voiced the need to link pay to both financial and non-financial performance measures. As Ellis Baxter put it, " sanity is View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
network needs to act as a "channel steward" who looks out for the interests of all players and customers. In this interview, Rangan discusses his concept of channel stewards and why companies need them. Q: View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
slight chance to win a jackpot, which increased as they saved more money. "They had not thought before that gambling might be a way to get people to save," says Norton. "Their insight was that you might be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
go in the varsity boat, just as a business would tap for its frontline team the best available finance or marketing person. But sometimes, as in business, crew coaches find...
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by Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
It's a much believed assumption in the retail world: If you're going to compete on the basis of low cost, then you can't afford to invest in your employees. Extensive training—who has the time to give?...
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- 21 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers
$100 for the item, plus shipping, plus taxes. Now, the bill [for the first installment] says $25. You say, ‘OK, now I'm going to buy it for sure.’” Consumers spend more with BNPL BPNL credit burst onto the...
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- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
ways of paying for these costs to society, their ideas and efforts may be thwarted in the voting booth in the future. How do we pay for the costs of globalization? What do YOU...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
The cover of last January's Harvard Business Review featured the subhead, "When it's OK to fake it till you make it." “Faking it” is the antithesis of authentic leadership. Following this advice is the most likely path to...
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by Bill George
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
than retaliate. Next, since higher-paid workers want to hold on to their jobs, they would not be as likely to steal as lower-wage workers might. In this case, not stealing is "not a matter of being...
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- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do...
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- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
says. They can also sort their credit card bills by retailer, focusing on those expensive coffees or take-out orders to rein in spending. “Whatever your weakness is for a retailer, you could look and say, ‘I'm View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
scrappier start with very little upfront money. Through a trading card deal, free tickets from a relative who worked for an airline, and lots of time on the phone and on the road, he gradually built a roster of clients. Create Value As...
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by Julia Hanna
- August 6, 2020
- Article
Companies Must Go Beyond Random Acts of Humanitarianism
By: Frank Cooper and Ranjay Gulati
Any organization can write a check or mobilize resources when confronted with a crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic or a social movement such as Black Lives Matter. But corporate crisis response becomes much more meaningful when stakeholders know that the organization...
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Cooper, Frank, and Ranjay Gulati. "Companies Must Go Beyond Random Acts of Humanitarianism." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (August 6, 2020).
- September 2015
- Article
Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
By: Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein and Robert W. Vishny
We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid...
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Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny. "Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors." Journal of Financial Economics 117, no. 3 (September 2015): 449–469. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
the markets they serve.— David Yoffie For example, we're already seen outside the United States that Microsoft is getting enormous pressure in places like Thailand, China, and India because people simply aren't going to View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
World As It Is The last part of the course focuses on Machiavelli's The Prince. If you look closely at Machiavelli, said Badaracco, the people he admired were the entrepreneurs of his era. They weren't...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
motivation for working all these hours is not actually to produce high-quality work. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” Confronting deeply held beliefs has been part of...
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- 05 Feb 2024
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire for Attitude?
(AdobeStock/Mediteraneo) For years, my colleagues and I have advised anyone who would listen to hire for attitude, train for skills. Organizations that get it backward pay a heavy price. One of my favorite quotes is that of Richard...
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by James Heskett