Incentive Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2014
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Pandemic Sweetens Lure of Smaller Cities’ Relocation Incentives

01 Jun 2008
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NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Sep 2014
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Subscribing to loyalty cards and site offers

03 May 2012
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Chesapeake Board Had `Blind Spots,' Kaplan Says

04 Jun 2013
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Corporate sustainability is not sustainable

02 Nov 2016
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When You Feel Pressured to Do the Wrong Thing at Work

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

business of delivering health care than making a diagnosis and prescribing medication,” she says. Today, as cofounder and CEO of Systole, a healthtech startup, Lee is developing a personalized, physician-driven digital exercise program... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist." Thomas asserts that there needs to be an alignment of the interests of the organization and the interests of the individuals: "It is crucial that the View Details

Keywords: Management

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

we build, more than hazards. Yet vulnerable development remains legal, profitable, and most consumers don’t know the difference. Many policies indirectly encourage it. Look how the National Flood Insurance Program spurred floodplain... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Touting Green Energy’s Potential

reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey bill). “Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and technologists... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational performance? In a 1997 working... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

processes generally, to more closely track and, when necessary, adjust energy expenditures; and educating citizens that if they want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” Without sweeping incentives and forceful... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

going to have to inspire a strong sense of mission and purpose that goes beyond salary and profits." Vaill agrees, adding, "Where is that inspiration going to come from? I contend that executives themselves will need a spiritual program... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

two programs in particular: The “one cow per poor family” program intended to get every poor family in Rwanda a cow—thereby increasing the amount of milk, protein, and fertilizer available to the average... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

withdrawal) and other incentives for remaining substance-free and engaging with a treatment program. The company currently offers programs for alcohol, opioids and heroin, and stimulant addiction.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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