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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence — from Habitat for Humanity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make mistakes, clients make mistakes, people... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
Image by Getty Images/Retrorocket What does it mean to be "successful"? How do you achieve your dreams? For many of us, it may mean creating an impressive list of achievements or gaining significant wealth, status, position, and power. It may mean impressing our... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
for us meant you could agree to the whole although maybe individual parts were difficult for you. The incentive for that was that if we achieved this, implementation became highly probable. It meant that if we failed, or if we had a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 20 Aug 2015
- News
Note to Amazon: Run More Tests on Workplace Practices
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
the behavior and economics in agriculture, and, secondly, in industry. Misuse with no consequences and the lack of incentives for proper use are extremely problematic. At WaterRev, we are investing in game-changing companies that are... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose option–laden compensation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
encouraging labor market mobility. “Setting the table in terms of creating an environment that is attractive to entrepreneurship is one of the most important things that government can do,” he says—and differences in incentives and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies and nonprofits have stronger incentives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
managers tend to make spending decisions based on political incentives rather than economic logic. “They get this mentality that if the other side’s spending money on TV, we’ve got to match that,” Jameson says. “What they don’t understand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers strategies for moving beyond a career or... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
says. “It’s like speaking in English today. You don’t have to be Shakespeare, but you do have to understand it well enough.” The Extended Monaco program also is helping existing businesses by providing financial incentives for them to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
that provides incentives to employees while generating profits and growth.” The plan: Rechargeable batteries are a safe, clean, affordable energy source. Each battery has the size and weight of a brick and can be delivered directly to... View Details