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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
would cooperate, because the stakes of not doing so were too high. The incentives were toward cooperation, not towards war. But with the impact of climate change, the promise of cooperation may not be something that we can count on. So...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
I went to business school without having taken any business courses previously. So, for me, the two courses that had the most impact were Large-Scale Investment with Ben Esty, and Entrepreneurial Finance with Bill Sahlman. I think every day about View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
the educational system, with incentives to encourage advanced study in engineering as well as information and manufacturing-related technologies. In addition, they call for a national economic strategy for manufacturing, with an emphasis...
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- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
almost certainly aren’t always used so). In general, earnings management refers to this discretionary component of accruals. In an average firm, earnings management is likely to be used to convey meaningful information on future cash flows. In the absence of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those that create incentives to monitor directors. We examine Mexico's banking system, 1888-1913, in which there was widespread related lending. We find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
circle to promote innovation, collaboration, and overall behavior change. Henderson explained that businesses attempting to cooperate pushes regulation, which in turn creates incentive for innovation. Hwang offered a call to action:...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Small businesses and lenders should push President Trump to streamline the current “spaghetti soup” of regulation that is supposed to ensure greater access to capital, transparency, and borrower protections. Small businesses could also benefit from more View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
policy makers know that these legal codifications would have tremendous impacts on the ability of entrepreneurs to obtain ownership rights to the geothermal resources and found new ventures. Colorado, for example, has ambitious renewable portfolio standards and tax...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
result of equilibrium product differentiation when some facts are nonverifiable. We use the model to address several questions, including the impact of competition on bias, the incentives to report unpopular news, and the impact of owner...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed "good-bye" payments if things do not work out. These are one of...
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by Jay W. Lorsch
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds;...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
but people are the key. Djelic points out that Serbia is offering incentives for talented people to return. And although billions in international assistance and private-sector investment have been promised, Djelic smiles and says, “I'm...
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- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
commons where the equilibrium is not a stable one, and incentives to deviate are high for individual actors (profitability strikes again!). Consequently, a lot of the game theory we studied actually comes into action there. Moreover, the...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
alleged short-term nature of capital markets, and the way the human thought process works. Overcoming roadblocks requires public policies to be much more aligned with creating the right incentives to support long-term commitments and...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
mounted with no relief to either side, the fund would keep growing, providing an increased incentive to settle. When one side cried uncle - on whatever terms - the financial strike would be over. But a great windfall would be waiting, and...
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