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2021
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To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers

Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details

Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning

19 Jun 2018
News

Ellen Pao: The Perverse Incentives that Help Incels Thrive in Tech

March 1999
Article

'Basket' Cases: Tax Incentives and International Joint Venture Participation by American Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Joint Ventures; Global Range; Business Ventures

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1981
Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (A) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

1993
Chapter

Trading Blocs and the Incentive to Protect: Implications for Japan and East Asia

By: Kenneth A. Froot and David B. Yoffie

Keywords: International Trade; International Finance; Trade

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2014
Article

Are Patents Creative or Destructive?

By: Tom Nicholas

Current debate over patent aggregation has led to renewed interest in the long-standing question concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Incentives; Patents; Technological Innovation; Motivation and Incentives

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November 2009
Case

Incentive or Insult? The Case of Joe Torre and the New York Yankees

By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben

Keywords: Sports Industry; New York (city, NY)

2003
Article

Do Incentives Work? The Perception of A Worldwide Sample of Senior Executives

By: Michael Beer and Nancy Katz

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Management; Perception

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1981
Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (C) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

2015
Working Paper

Client Service, Compensation, and the Sell-Side Analyst Objective Function: An Empirical Analysis of Relational Incentives in the Investment-Research Industry

By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy

This paper investigates how sell-side analysts build and sustain their client networks; the economic gains to successfully managing this challenge; and the metrics through which these incentives are delivered. In a typical semiannual period, the average analyst... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Jobs and Positions

Article

Managing the Use and Dissemination of Information about Biomarkers: The Importance of Incentive Structures.

By: Ariel Dora Stern

The use of biomarkers holds great promise for the development of new therapeutics and the acceleration of clinical research. However, biomarkers must be validated—a complex and costly endeavor. Importantly, biomarker validation is meaningfully shaped by economic and... View Details

Keywords: Biomarkers; Information Management; Health Care and Treatment; Motivation and Incentives

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January 2, 2008
Editorial

A Better Way to Pay CEOs: Smarter Incentives Could Reduce the Risks They Pursue

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Risk and Uncertainty

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14 Nov 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Parallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera & Karim R. Lakhani

1981
Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (B) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

2015
Working Paper

Do People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay

By: Pablo Hernandez, Dylan B. Minor and Dana Sisak

We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and groups affect performance when faced with relative incentives. We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in generating these effects. We find... View Details

Keywords: Social Preferences; Relative Performance; Collusion; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Attitudes; Performance

March 1997
Article

Incentives and Cooperation: The Joint Effects of Task and Reward Interdependence on Group Performance

By: George P. Baker and Ruth Wageman

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cooperation; Groups and Teams; Performance

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1988
Chapter

Evaluation of Government Financial Incentives to Large Scale Energy Projects: A Contingent Claims Approach

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Scott P. Mason

Keywords: Energy; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Sovereign Finance; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Energy Industry

September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Case

U.S. Market Framework for Gasoline, The: Individual Incentives and Societal Goals in Global Markets

By: Bruce R. Scott and Edward Murphy

Traces the role of gasoline taxes in financing U.S. highways and the use of regulations to increase fuel economy to show how and why the U.S. market framework for gasoline is so different from that in Europe. Focuses on whether the U.S. tax should be raised, as... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Sources; Digital Platforms; Sovereign Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; United States; Europe

1995
Chapter

Incentive Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment, and Risk Management Policies

Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry

Research Summary

Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)

The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when... View Details

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