Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method and the final amount will be debated.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

pay high coupons—typically, two-digit interest rates—for up to 30 years," Vallée explains. The researchers set out to find out why so many local politicians took out toxic loans in the first place—and whether they understood the stakes. Political View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

presentation by suggesting that talking about business and the public sphere was like "dancing about architecture." Business often has no incentive to grapple with public sector problems, and those businesses that choose to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

maximization of profit" and the development of the field of "agency theory" by "Chicago School" alumni which clearly positioned the manager as the agent of the shareholder. They advocated larger performance-based View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

for those who are relatively uninterested. We discuss the implications of the IKEA effect for marketing managers and organizations more generally. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-091.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCommunity Health Workers in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

holdings, we find considerable heterogeneity in investor demand for securitizations in the pre-crisis period. We argue that both investor beliefs and incentives help to explain this variation in demand. By contrast, our data paints a more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

true economic performance. In particular, students learn accounting concepts related to securitization, gain on sale accounting, valuation of available for sale securities, and analyzing the statement of cash flows. The case also allows students to understand the role... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

paper on studying the circumstances under which alignment will or will not happen. Using game theory, we find that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing Intelligence Review Beyond... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which allows for $27... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

and creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

ever doubt your own ability, then you're doomed. Those are probably the key things I took away with me. Meakem: I draw on CCMO [Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations] every day, just in terms of compensation—our compensation structure and the View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

cards a valid one? For example, do these incentives actually serve as a motivation? Would people work less hard if you didn't have them? Our argument is that we don't think so. How much is enough in terms of pay? Q: The feeling in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

were devastating. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307010 Lincoln Electric Harvard Business School Case 707-445 The case describes Lincoln Electric's business strategy and incentive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023
Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Music Industry; Education Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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September 2019
Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney

The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details