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- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee is the disruptive innovation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
everything else.” That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that encouraged the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don’t evoke... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are incentives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
about the ecosystem as a whole and figuring out the right incentives for everyone to contribute can be complex, and HBS cases provide great tools to think about these issues. Early on, classes like Founders’ Dilemma were also very helpful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
was a systems thinker, GMP gave me new ways to think about how to align incentives and manage an ecosystem,” he says. “It had me sit back in an environment that’s challenging, asking, Am I following the right strategy?” The GMP program... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product development. As a second-year MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
introduces a “physician compact” that specifies the responsibilities of the organization and its employee doctors and ties those principles into the incentive compensation plan. The physician compact is a particularly effective way to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
for example, buys copy paper, it knows where the trees it’s made from were cut. That means the company can create and enforce purchasing standards so it’s not unwittingly contributing to illegal logging. We’re also exploring how you create financial View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make mistakes, clients make mistakes, people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cash at what time? How is risk allocated? What are the incentives of all parties to the deal now and given reasonable scenarios into the future? Who will be attracted by the deal? What can be inferred from how people respond to the deal... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
the behavior and economics in agriculture, and, secondly, in industry. Misuse with no consequences and the lack of incentives for proper use are extremely problematic. At WaterRev, we are investing in game-changing companies that are... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose option–laden compensation... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
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 this, implementation became highly probable. It meant that if we failed, or if we had a... View Details