Pay-for-Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons

A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a... View Details

18 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

more ethically when focused on what not to do. Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation Be Replaced? In spite of its naysayers, pay-for-performance compensation still makes sense to most of us. But there is a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

look more carefully at how budgets drive compensation and, in turn, behavior. In a traditional pay-for-performance incentive system, a manager's total cash compensation (salary plus bonus) is constant until a minimum performance hurdle is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

executives. Healy: To put it in context, we live in a society in which the stars—entertainers, professional athletes, the top performers in any industry—make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

be higher and the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be lower relative to a scenario in which the measure is not mandated. In contrast, if the mandated measure's informativeness dominates the measure's sensitivity to effort, then effort... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance incentives, worker education, unions, antitrust laws) As we enter... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

Andrew Huang and the Center had worked with the Taiwan National Health Insurance system to create a pay-for-performance reimbursement program for breast cancer care that has since been adopted by five other providers. The program issues... View Details