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  • 01 Oct 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

be expecting too much of corporate boards and CEOs if we put primary responsibility for stakeholder capitalism in their hands. Incentives influenced by market-based competition nudge them toward short-term optimums regardless of their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is going to require insurers to deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care at a lower price. Sadun: I... View Details
Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

markets will provide incentives for companies to behave responsibly and companies will exhibit those behaviors because they'll have lower costs if they do. But that will depend on organizations like SASB, and to what extent they're... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 22 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity, joy, trust, and productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • April 2007
  • Article

Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Cooperation; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Research and Development; Motivation and Incentives; Investment; Price; Product Launch; Product
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  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

However, app developers’ incentives to innovate are not completely suppressed; rather, they shift innovation to unaffected and new apps. Given many apps already offering similar features, Google’s entry may reduce such social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

paid $7 a session and the $3-earning “flexible” participants visited the gym at approximately the same frequency. Not surprisingly, “routine” gym-goers were more likely to exercise within their appointed time slot. After the initial four weeks, when the financial View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

two entrepreneurial pitch videos online. In each case, one of the pitches had won funding in real life. Participants in the experiment, roughly half of whom were women, were tasked with guessing the actual winner, with the incentive of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

ideas in management and applied economics. They include a wide range of topics, including several drawn from what have come to be known as neuro economics (how managers really think and act), behavioral economics, phenomena of irrational behavior, and "nudge"... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • May 1996
  • Background Note

The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Highlights and explores how a general manager adds value to the firm at the operational level by managing through people. Discusses how assumptions about human motivation influence the employment contract that the general manager implicitly enters into with the workers... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 21 Dec 2012
  • News

Kathy Giusti's Quest for a Cure

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

precision medicines (LPMs) as those that use one or more relevant biomarkers. We then further segment trials based on the nature of the biomarker(s) used and other trial features with economic implications. Given potential changes in the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk-reduction instrument. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

to bring a solution to scale or not. That was one of the topics that emerged as an extremely potent theme: it just kept on surfacing as transformative for leaders in wildly different sectors – both unlocking opportunities and sometimes blocking them. Aligning View Details
  • September 2009
  • Case

Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute

By: H. Kent Bowen, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Courtney Purrington
Peter Schultz, Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, managed an extremely productive lab. This case examines how Schultz recruited, motivated and inspired the students and scientists that worked with him. View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Research and Development; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Style
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  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

Review, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://hbr.org/product/guide-to-managing-up-and-across/an/11126-PDF-ENG Empirical Observations on Incentives for Weight Loss Authors:Leslie John, George Lowenstein,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel