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- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
procedure performed or patient seen, without explicit rewards for the quality of the services rendered. This model translates internally into an incentive system that prioritizes patient volume over patient value. That is, physicians are... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In one experiment, students had to come up with anagrams under the time pressure of 90 seconds per round, over a series of six rounds, with the understanding that they would be scoring themselves at the end of the test—and that they would be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
focus not just on financial rewards but on recognition as well. To that end, Lerner recommends that firms host innovation contests, wherein individuals or teams receive prizes for solving internal problems... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
still worth my time? But while much is changing in business, a lot of the challenges still involve basic block-and-tackle work around product development, sales, and distribution. Also of major importance: hiring, training, motivating, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
and well-being of others.” He thinks these virtues are not often reflected in what actually happens in real organizational life. Instead, the leaders he sees commonly exhibit immodest, inauthentic, dishonest, untrustworthy, and self-serving behaviors. They are View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al., (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
and 3 show that the emotional rewards associated with giving to friends or acquaintances are greatest in situations that facilitate social connection. Thus, social connection may be important for turning good deeds into good feelings, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
Now a new look at the issue makes the case for selective protective acts as a way of avoiding the disruptions to businesses and labor associated with a free trade policy that rewards and penalizes businesses with increasing speed. (These... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
"best places to work" both in the U.S. and the U.K., is related positively to economic performance. Further, intrinsic rewards, such as capable colleagues and recognition for good work, play a larger role in worker satisfaction than extrinsic View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
unconditional compensation in the form of reciprocity to be effective at improving sales force performance only when given as a delayed reward of which the effectiveness decreases with repeated exposure. We also find heterogeneity in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112032-PDF-ENG "Longtop Financial Technologies (A) David F. Hawkins, Annelena Lobb, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 112-036 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
management of chronic conditions. Here, many employers in the United States and Europe have made impressive starts. Some companies cover the costs of smoking cessation and weight loss programs, or reward participation in health and risk... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
Partners is one company that has embraced such an approach. Because it takes mentorship seriously, the firm reaps the rewards of a constant pipeline of fresh talent. Each year, DaVita visits college and business school campuses recruiting... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller