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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
implicit incentives in the form of sharp increases in employee termination linked to "excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... 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
- 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
- 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
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
is critical to get ready.” Specifically, small to medium projects are getting the largest boost. “Previously, a multi-family home in a low income community was often too small a project for a bank to finance installation of a solar project, for example. Now, there are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
hours. How does that hurt productivity? The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it comes from a... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Overly detailed contracts leave no room for spontaneous acts of kindness to create goodwill between parties; too-rigid contracts leave parties unable to respond to the unanticipated; and, strangely enough, incentives can end up being just... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
markets have become more pervasive, firms have used them badly. Two, we have seen leaders substitute market-based incentives for judgment and for standards where they shouldn't. Three, we have seen governance institutions compromising... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if equity is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further results of this paper provide argument and thus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market accounting, the performance... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
segmentation schemes haven't fared much better." Instead, Treacy advises us to keep our eye on the goal of delivering product or service value as a means to retain our customer base rather than emphasizing loyalty schemes that utilize special View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
incentives of VC funds but hurts entrepreneurs. Eric’s discussion brought a whole new perspective: when a company is performing well and it attracts outside investors, pro rata rights of previous investors limit the amount of money new... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
of resources, incentive compensation, or investments in socially motivated initiatives? He asks how a CEO avoids addressing the needs of one stakeholder too much or too little for too long? Others have suggested that the new statement... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Existing corporate structures, controls, and incentives do work against out-of-the-box thinking. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has just published a Harvard Business Review article on the topic, discusses her research into the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne