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30 Jul 2013
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health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

from the atmosphere annually. The revised Section 45Q substantially increases subsidies for direct-air capture (DAC), which removes carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, and makes the incentives available to smaller companies—changes... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

January 2021
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Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal

The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends... View Details

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the core notions of brand value, scale, regulatory guardrails, hierarchy, incentives etc. The classes cover companies like Polygon, Ava Labs that provide the platform for others to build new platforms for cooperation, companies like... View Details

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

bank's shares. This contrasts with outside shareholders who are more likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

"boilerplate" to the agents' incentives to just lack of creative thinking and willingness to push the boundaries of what's done. One of the goals of the book is to put these kinds of moves on the table for people to consider. Q:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

that such a manager has little hope of retaining this customer from year to year, there is little incentive to encourage consumption by billing in installments. Instead, he can minimize administrative hassles and maximize revenues by... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

investors—in return for greater payoffs for the founders if their company flourished. Another was fatally flawed because it gave the initial investor little incentive to supply more money, and also discouraged others from stepping forward... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

Information and the Arts George Yeo (MBA '85). "We are absolutely delighted and honored that HBS has chosen Hong Kong," said Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's chief executive, at the inaugural dinner. Fung added, "HBS's choice of Hong Kong gives us View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

23 Jul 2013
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and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Review sites have become increasingly important sources of information for consumers. Because these reviews affect sales, businesses have the incentive to game the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Apr 2012
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in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jan 2010
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We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of time-varying catering View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

accounting are very "sticky," suggesting there will need to be a strong set of actions and incentives to get us to truly comparable global accounting. The insights from the body of literature I just mentioned are important, but... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

is very granular. It's longitudinal, it breaks down by student, by geography. Pretty much any way you could cut it, it has good data. And for the longest time, we've been asking state leaders to make policies, decisions, around teacher staffing, View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

that you didn’t in previous incarnations of the web. And more important, the platforms actually have a strong incentive to educate consumers and help them understand. Because once you own your digital assets, you can carry them with you... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Sep 2018
News

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 for a consulting... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

dampening the incentive to adopt managerial practices; and c) nonpecuniary returns to potentially inefficient but power-preserving practices. The findings presented in the paper provide support for a) and c), while we do not find evidence... View Details