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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if...
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Deborah Blagg
- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Programs;
Ethics;
Quality;
Moral Sensibility;
Service Delivery;
Compensation and Benefits;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Ingrid Marie Nembhard, and Robert Galvin. "Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life." Harvard Business School Case 604-030, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can produce. Kuttner argues that...
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by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
that could also make niche content more profitable, according to researchers Feng Zhu and Monic Sun. "Many media scholars think this revenue model is detrimental to society because it provides incentive for the content provider to...
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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"greed and corruption helped create the crisis, ... simple human frailty played a vital role." They suggest providing incentives to make financial products easier, not more difficult, to understand. This would involve, among...
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by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
companies. For years, he said, the media industry has operated in a very fragmented economic structure that gave an individual company "a perverse incentive to defend its territory instead of attacking globally." That is coming...
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- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
legislation should enable record-level of government investment in decarbonization. The U.S. is ripe for the transition. Business and government need to get better at collaboration, but leaders must also simultaneously provide adequate guardrails to ensure risk is...
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
with whatever advertising materials he might agree to use in dealing with his customers,” historian Robert Jay explains. “The generous supply of chromolithographed trade cards and other advertising materials was in fact a powerful View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
incentives etc. The classes cover companies like Polygon, Ava Labs that provide the platform for others to build new platforms for cooperation, companies like Uniswap that have the potential to restructure financial exchanges, Circle...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
entrepreneurs to think about those dynamics as they build their board. Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, for instance, have a very different incentive for exit than some of the more traditional VC firms. They would be much more willing to...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee is the disruptive innovation...
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Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give...
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Standards;
Interests;
Decision Making;
Behavior;
Value;
Groups and Teams;
Performance Expectations;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership;
Business Cycles;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Motivation and Incentives
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter." Alabama Law Review 62, no. 5 (2011).
- November 2010 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Aman Resorts (B)
By: Eugene Soltes and Aldo Sesia
The (B) case describes how employees are rewarded and compensated and is used to supplement the (A) case.
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Accommodations Industry
Soltes, Eugene, and Aldo Sesia. "Aman Resorts (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-015, November 2010. (Revised April 2011.)
- 13 Sep 2013
- News
Educate Everyone About Second-Generation Gender Bias
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“ Of everything that can engage people deeply in work, the single most important is simply making progress in meaningful work.” —HBS professor Teresa Amabile, discussing her long-range research on what motivates employees. (Radio Boston, September 19, 2011) “The...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
achieve better outcomes in competitive contexts. Working PapersAre There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Abstract We present a model that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
dividends. “The decision to accelerate that dividend was driven in large part by the executives’ preferences,” Pérez Cavazos says. While executives with a large stake in the company had added incentive to minimize taxes, that “doesn’t...
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by Roberta Holland
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
very dumb things. And it's always tempting to say, 'Can we just tweak the incentives and hope the problem goes away?' But that can come back and bite us very badly." The Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing is focused on...
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