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- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
those created by well-designed policy (the PPF). Specifically, this note analyzes how differences in governance structure, termination capabilities, funding mechanisms, and asset management policies created distinctly different financial outcomes and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
on the process. On the other, it opens up the possibility that firms could capture these third-party actors instead—for example, drug companies influencing doctors with incentives for prescribing drugs or sponsoring medical conferences....
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- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
mine.” Farrington believes that giving young women the incentive to embrace engineering and technology is the way to fill the pipeline and expand women’s presence in Silicon Valley. “We hire a lot of interns and analysts and...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the right...
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Strategy Jorge Tamayo Spring 2024 Q3 1.5 The Moral Leader General Management Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Motivation and Incentives Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Ashley Whillans Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top N Area...
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- December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
City of Charlotte (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make...
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Balanced Scorecard;
Government Administration;
City;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Adoption;
Public Sector;
Management Teams;
Programs;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Public Administration Industry;
North Carolina
Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-036, December 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
members of their own gender/ethnic group. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53407 Complex Disclosure By: Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin Abstract—We present evidence that complex disclosure can result from the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
incentives necessary to maximize shareholder value? The era of private equity is far from over—the top funds have become very large and are likely to play an influential role in future market cycles. Boards that ask these questions, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
against constrained mutual funds earn significant returns for providing liquidity. In addition, future flow-driven transactions are predictable, creating an incentive to front-run the anticipated forced trades by funds experiencing...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a reason to buy. State and local...
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by Rachel Layne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
most of these minorities fled or were killed. In other words, the country’s entrepreneurial elite were decimated. It proved a lengthy and challenging process over subsequent decades to build a new Muslim national business class employing financial and other View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
confident that shareholders will approve changes made to the company’s executive incentive plan (EIP) and steps taken to accelerate the turnover of long-serving directors, but he wonders how much longer the company will be able to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
responsible for sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
permitted to contest a local election. We argue that this is feasible: sufficient economic incentives could be put in place to induce firms to run for office, particularly if company officeholders prove to be competent in revenue...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal structural...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming)...
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Sean Silverthorne