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  • August 1989
  • Case

New Zealand Dairy Board: Coordination and Incentives in a Cooperative

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; New Zealand
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives

motivated when payoff requires such a daunting climb? A clear temptation, and a path pursued by many firms, is to reduce strike prices or award new options reflecting lower stock values. But, as HBS... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Muelbroek; Li Jin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • August 8, 2003
  • Comment

A Better Way to Motivate Staff

By: Roberto G. Mendoza, Peter Hancock and Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employees
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  • August 2009
  • Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
Keywords: Business Education; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2011
  • Article

Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Behavior; Satisfaction; Size; Government and Politics; Economics; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore
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Physician vs. Patient Incentives in Prescription Drug Choice

The market for medical care involves interactions among patients, providers, and the insurers who pay for the care of their enrollees.  The division of responsibilities creates scope for agency costs and moral hazard in the physician's treatment choice.... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
  • 04 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

5 Ways to Motivate Employees After the Holiday Season

The holiday season brings a flurry of fun and stress for all employees. It can be a tough adjustment to get back in the swing of things as many are feeling the post-holiday blues. Here are 5 ways to keep employees View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 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
  • 07 Mar 2014
  • News

The Importance of Giving Credit

Keywords: management; communication; incentive; employee motivation
  • 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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    Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

    The literature on the private provision of public goods suggests an inverse relationship between incentives to contribute and group size. We find, however, that after an exogenous reduction of group size at Chinese Wikipedia, the nonblocked contributors decrease... View Details
    • 19 Jul 2017
    • News

    Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

    • 27 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

    Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera & Kelsey Jack
    • 21 Jul 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives

    Keywords: by Yanhua Z. Bird, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel
    • 02 Nov 2005
    • Conference Presentation

    Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital

    By: George P. Baker, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Cristian Voicu
    Keywords: Wages; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Human Capital
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    • 2013
    • Article

    Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?

    By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek and Sang-Hoon Kim
    Purpose: There is lack of research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation; Entrepreneurs; Japan; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Japan; United States
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Status Pivoting: Coping with Status Threats through Motivated Trade-off Beliefs and Consumption across Domains

    By: Dafna Goor, Anat Keinan and Nailya Ordabayeva
    Prior research established that status threat leads consumers to display status-related products such as luxury brands. While compensatory consumption in the domain of the status threat (e.g., products associated with financial and professional success) is the most... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Luxury; Consumer Behavior
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    • 19 Feb 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting

    Keywords: by Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino & Max H. Bazerman

      Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment

      We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details