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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
person at the company is required to spend at least one day a year providing their services in the field. To foster community relations, Pollard said, he "began by wondering what would happen if employees were given extended lunch hours to go mentor... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
controls to not have it arise again.” Lambert: Is it helpful for such companies report violations? Or should they just go ahead and cooperate with investigators? Soltes: On the one hand, there are many incentives to self- report because... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
incentivized entrepreneurs through Start-Up Chile, which provides qualified entrepreneurs with a year-long visa and $40,000 in equity-free grants. In return, entrepreneurs must participate in Chile’s economy. So far, the program has... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to slow or speed up mean reversion in... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address consumers' demands for safety.... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
automatically covers all residents in its National Health Service, a public system with no out-of-pocket costs, and Germany and Israel have systems of coverage through competing nonprofit plans. Like programs in other countries, the... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
bucket and in a little over three years all your current customers might be gone,” says Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For that reason, many companies have a program to... View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the CLIMB program , Leadership & Management and Strategy track. Introduction to Strategy Execution ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Strategy Execution $1,850... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
Farronato says. Machine learning for dining out Regulatory health inspections are nothing new: Most cities maintain grading programs to evaluate restaurants’ hygiene practices, and that information is publicly available to savvy diners.... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
paper, he and fellow economists have found themselves handicapped by a problem just as real as any technological barrier or requirement of incentives and efficiency: the downright distaste that some people feel for particular... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s... Nien-he Hsieh Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
One self-managed team, for example, developed a program called "aces in your places," in which team members assumed jobs they wanted to learn during slack business hours, then took their "battle stations" to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Research - Health Care
Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
and sometimes outside of work.” He added, “Everybody needs to be touched by someone who cares.” Of course, this takes time that many managers don’t feel they can spare. As Guy put it, “Improving employee engagement is not done through some blanket View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett