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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Consumers are the gatekeepers of their personal information and choose whether to sign up for the firm's service and how much personal information to provide. The incentives of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
approach to sales, including the sales team's composition, compensation, and incentive structure. Over time, Oversight had engaged in a variety of channel partnerships, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
everywhere." Talent magnets and motivation machines. Talented people with many options are increasingly attracted to companies and stay there because of compatible values.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
applications to be granted! Furthermore, the new orientation creates strong incentives for the patent office to process applications as quickly as possible, and at the lowest possible cost. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
the difficulty of decisions and the perverse incentives that can come from them can help reduce this preference for worse news,” says Barasz, “and, ideally, free people to make better choices.” About the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus alternatives,” the paper states. The role of... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
are aware of the new opportunities, and then you've got to motivate and enable them to find an insurance solution that makes sense for them." After all, no one wakes up in... View Details
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
of the brand among hundreds of thousands of people who may be working for the enterprises to which Accenture consults (or is seeking to consult). And the motivational value of inviting top customers,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
IDEO designers, and it poses the following questions: which types of client work keep designers most motivated and engaged at work, and what are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it's been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact with patients every day.... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business," she says. Dear Diary As a way to delve deeper into the link between View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while nonprofits can learn more... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
Working PapersShamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Abstract We apply institutional theory to explain how firms respond to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne