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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the organization don’ t have much View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations. Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Manufacturing and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Bias in Search Results?: Diagnosis and Response Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 7 (2011) Abstract I explore allegations of search engine bias, including understanding a search...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
“Historically, when the government tries to set limits it doesn't work very well.” Say on pay has been a research focus of HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri, who started his career at Stern Stewart & Co specializing in performance measurement and View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
or not on my watch anyhow." (Jamal Barghouti). A dominant theme concerned the bias in the market toward addressing short-term challenges, caused in large part by what Robin Chacko described as the "impatient" investor. As Sarang Kulkarni put it,...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Stock exchanges as auditors? The stock exchanges should be responsible for hiring and firing auditors, negotiating their fees, and overseeing the outcomes of the audits themselves, say Healy and Palepu. As they see it, the exchanges have a strong View Details
- 20 Apr 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to achieve. Don't cheat. Don't lie....
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by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff?
By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan W. Buell
The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at airports across Japan, goes undercover as a service crew member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and...
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Employee Empowerment;
Employee Motivation;
Turnaround;
Service Operations;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leadership;
Air Transportation Industry;
Japan
Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell. "Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff?" R1604K. Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 113–117.
- September 2015
- Article
Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia
By: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti and George Serafeim
We study conference calls as a voluntary disclosure channel and create a proxy for the time horizon that senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives'...
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Short-termism;
Management Styles;
Disclosure;
Conference Calls;
Investing;
Earnings Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Style;
Forms of Communication
Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim. "Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia." Review of Accounting Studies 20, no. 3 (September 2015): 1122–1163.
- winter 1980
- Article
Evolving Terms of Mineral Agreements: Risk, Reward, and Participation in Deep Seabed Mining
By: James K. Sebenius and Mati Pal
Sebenius, James K., and Mati Pal. "Evolving Terms of Mineral Agreements: Risk, Reward, and Participation in Deep Seabed Mining." Columbia Journal of World Business 15, no. 4 (winter 1980): 75–83.
- 5 Aug 2005 - 10 Aug 2005
- Conference Presentation
Trust in the face of competitive and cooperative rewards
By: K. Y. Ng, Roy Y.J. Chua and M. L. Chan
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor Meg Berté (MBA 2000), who rode...
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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
success to the success of its engines in delivering valuable up-time to ultimate customers. But it did much more than that. By guaranteeing up-time at a given cost, GE's management created a built-in incentive to improve the product and...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
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by Heidi K. Gardner
- 01 Mar 1994
- Conference Presentation
Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity, and Innovation: The Case of R&D Downsizing
By: Teresa M. Amabile and R. Conti
- Article
Entrepreneurial Creativity Through Motivational Synergy
By: T. M. Amabile
This paper defines and describes entrepreneurial creativity, which is the generation and implementation of novel, appropriate ideas to establish a new venture. Entrepreneurial creativity can be exhibited in established organizations as well as in start-up firms. The...
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Creativity;
Motivation and Incentives;
Organizational Culture;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention
Amabile, T. M. "Entrepreneurial Creativity Through Motivational Synergy." Journal of Creative Behavior 31, no. 1 (March 1997): 18–26.
- 2013
- Working Paper
The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
By: Timothy Gubler, Ian I. Larkin and Lamar Pierce
Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants to show that awards can carry significant...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Service Delivery;
Performance Productivity;
Failure;
Service Industry
Gubler, Timothy, Ian I. Larkin, and Lamar Pierce. "The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-069, February 2013.