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- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Art-of-Negotiation/Michael-Wheeler/9781451690446 August 2013 Current Directions in Psychological Science Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off By: Dunn, Elizabeth W.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
of the average American. The second part of that definition is immensely important. Sometimes you hear people saying the US would be more competitive if only wages were lower or we had a cheaper dollar. But if we took a national pay cut... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
and increase earnings management and CEO compensation following these board appointments. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malcofrazIII.pdf Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
accounts for a lot of the effort they put in and also the performance their performance," concludes Lakhani. "The effect is as strong as paying them for their work." This is hardly just an academic study for Lakhani and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
days earlier than would have been possible without a settlement product. Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
economies, the smaller economies pay the price. The problem is exacerbated by continuing structural weaknesses in developing countries where foreign investments are not necessarily anchored in long-term commitments to infrastructure or... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
banker who has spent months and months and months analyzing a particular deal between two companies can spend only a few minutes making a hiring decision for his team, when the firm is sometimes paying millions of dollars in guaranteed... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
Businesses that offer their customers the highest levels of service might like to believe that all their efforts to pamper and please will pay off with an extremely loyal following. “Customers you might expect to be the most 'stuck' are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
whom resources will flow. Value, of course, is an economic concept, not primarily measured in physical performance attributes, but rather what a buyer will pay for a product or service. A customer can value a technology according to its... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
long-run supply and demand conditions. In the short run, intense competition between private-equity groups may lead to a willingness to pay a premium for certain types of firms (e.g., firms specializing in tools and content for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year pilot will View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
had built its reputation by being environmentally responsible ran into trouble when it expanded its business into India," she explains, "because people there were not willing to pay for the world-class technology necessary to... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture capitalists by offering these kinds of incentives. (It would be hard for them to definitively answer this unless they had been able to find a broad-minded company who would be willing to let them run experiments with their venture groups' View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
increased dramatically. Now that they could pay for showing up late, the parents stopped feeling guilty and made it a habit. "If you put a money value on the incentive, you often take away the pressure to conform to norms," Raman said.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
working paper, "Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship". The news that successful experience, or performance persistence, pays off may not be news at all. But HBS researchers were surprised at just how much it does help. Successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
that potential investors pay special attention to the career histories of all involved. Careers Count So what career factors gave biotech a boost? Higgins found three specific advantages in chief executive officers who led a successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark