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- 21 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence
Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?
- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
believe cancer was fatal. I wish to hear laughter in my classroom when I remind students of how serious and pretentious they were on their oh-so-important first day of university. I want to make my wife laugh as we lazily watch the sunset from a newly climbed mountain... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
Ian Walsh was like many other students at Hamilton College - he majored in English and biology and played hockey and lacrosse. But he and his twin brother, Eric, were in a class by themselves when it came to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 04 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
Ian K. Ballantine
In 1952, the year of Ballantine Books' founding, Ballantine introduced four titles, including Executive Suite by Cameron Hawley, which became a bestseller and a successful motion picture. Ballantine proved to the publishing industry that... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil During Early Industrialization
- 28 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation
- 28 Feb 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls and Small-Business Employment
- 09 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences
- 10 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors
- 04 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism
- 23 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
motivated to work harder over the long term. But new research suggests that some awards may actually have the opposite effect, according to a recent paper called The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field, written View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
by the same person. "It's like having a convenience store that's not manned, and everyone who comes in can either steal or pay, but there's a video camera that nobody knows about, and it's tracking everyone's every move," View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
A large amusement park. A long line at an airport. A children's summer camp in Italy. What do these places have in common? Surprisingly, all are settings for serious research by Harvard Business School faculty. There's a sea change afoot... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
"discovery-driven planning," created by Ian MacMillan, a professor at the Wharton School, and Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia. In the interest of simplicity, How Will You Measure Your Life? distills... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Foundation has granted $19 million to high-impact programs like Food Solutions, and institutions with large food purchasing power like colleges and universities, to help move the region closer to the 50 by 60 goal. View Details