Incentives For CSR - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

sitting in his Baker Library office amidst drifting piles of correspondence - much of it from bright, young HBS grads describing their hopeful new business ideas. As he considers what the hottest fields for entrepreneurs have been these... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

young, and I started asking questions about his background and what he did, and he started asking me about how does he run a better operation, with this giant thing, because he had no experience. And we ended up talking for two and a half... View Details

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran... View Details

30 Mar 2017
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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... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Tribute to Fellowships

seventh annual Fellowship Dinner on April 11. The dinner culminated a day of campus activities for 150 alumni who sponsor fellowships and some 300 students who directly benefit from them. In his after-dinner remarks, Dean Jay Light noted... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
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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

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the University of Havana View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites by Martin L. Abbott... View Details

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