Bonuses in Bad Times

In a recession, how should a supermarket chain acknowledge its employees’ extra effort?

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Zeynep Ton

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Zeynep Ton

From the Magazine (July–August 2012)

HBR’s fictionalized case studies present dilemmas faced by leaders in real companies and offer solutions from experts. This one is based on the HBS Case Study “Mercadona” (case no. 610-089), by Zeynep Ton and Simon Harrow. It is available at hbr.org.

A version of this article appeared in the July–August 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Daniela Beyersdorfer is the assistant director of Harvard Business School’s Europe Research Center, in Paris.
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Vincent Dessain is the center’s executive director.
Zeynep Ton is a professor of the practice at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a cofounder and the president of the nonprofit Good Jobs Institute. She is the author of The Good Jobs Strategy and The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay and Meaning to Everyone’s Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023).
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