Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

devices. That simple step, in Schreck's opinion, "changed the nature of where we're going, I think, with global computing. It depends on what behavior you're asking [people] to change, and what the incentive and benefit is to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

sufficiently generous to support inefficiencies. Therefore providers must turn to other incentives to motivate a shift in costing practices. Medical Conditions Q: How is the medical condition defined? A: A medical condition is defined by... View Details

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

also examine the role of Singapore in the evolving geopolitical environment. We will spend time on the various ways in which the Singapore Government has helped create the infrastructure, workforce, policies and incentives that attract... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

be expecting too much of corporate boards and CEOs if we put primary responsibility for stakeholder capitalism in their hands. Incentives influenced by market-based competition nudge them toward short-term optimums regardless of their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is going to require insurers to deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care at a lower price. Sadun: I... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

markets will provide incentives for companies to behave responsibly and companies will exhibit those behaviors because they'll have lower costs if they do. But that will depend on organizations like SASB, and to what extent they're... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

I think one thing we have learned is to be careful when we try to generalize about the importance of institutions. Since the work of Nobel Prize winning economic historian Douglass North, the importance of institutions in providing the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

incentives for them to work on a solution. And when I was thinking systematically about where else I could look, I discovered a company, InnoCentive.com, that took problems in R&D labs and broadcast them to outsiders. So the study was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

the three XTV partners at least $44 million. Internal Rate Of Return The same assumptions suggest a net internal rate of return for Xerox (i.e., after fees and incentive compensation) of at least 56 percent. This compares favorably with... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

However, app developers’ incentives to innovate are not completely suppressed; rather, they shift innovation to unaffected and new apps. Given many apps already offering similar features, Google’s entry may reduce such social... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders

Keywords: by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman; Food & Beverage

March 1995
Case

Donald Salter Communications, Inc.

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott

A new CEO is hired to manage the turnaround of a family-owned newspaper publisher. In a departure from previous management, he implements a new compensation scheme that explicitly ties executive pay to market-value-based measures of firm performance. Because the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Asset Management; Wages; Balanced Scorecard; Family Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Valuation; Journalism and News Industry

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December 2003 (Revised May 2004)
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Sears Auto Centers (A) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine

In the early 1990s Sears faced and allegations by the California Department of Consumer Affairs that the company's auto repair centers had been overbilling customers and making unnecessary repairs. Top management must evaluate the problem and come up with a plan to... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry

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September 2022
Case

HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp

Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details