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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
involved? I’ve studied what happens when you introduce financial incentives into the volunteering environment. From a more traditional economics viewpoint, if I pay you to do something, you’re more likely to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed “good-bye” payments if things do not work out. These are one of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives Creativity in a Crunch Nobody's Perfect. Now What? Last spring, a special symposium was held on campus in celebration of faculty research. The one-day... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
annual basis as part of an annual pay package is a much more effective stimulus for success. For example, if a CEO is given options and the stock price drops, compensation is diminished, too. But incentives... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
into round holes. Employers have commonly sought to solve that motivation problem in one way: money. By using "pay-for-performance" schemes that reward workers for hitting targets in a project, they seek to provide that extra View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine what those incentives ought to... View Details
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Staff Catering Guidelines | About
Staff Catering Guidelines Introduction HBS does not pay for meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks) when the only recipients are HBS employees. This includes meals catered by Restaurant Associates, or any other food service vendors... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Which programs work best? A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up Many internet users don't give a second thought to copying and reusing an image. Here's how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
firms to 400 to 1 just prior to the current economic meltdown, because pay for performance most often applies only to a small cadre of managers in many organizations. Further, pay for performance, when... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
is a delicate balancing act of incentives and control. Yet, the law as currently written creates a highly inefficient either/or situation. "The way the law is today, it forces you to make a binary decision: You are either a platform... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If current disclosure is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
incentive scheme over a linear one, even though this reduces pay for many subjects and despite the presence of clear feedback. Additionally, the linear scheme attracts demotivated, underconfident workers who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
otherwise." In the cases of umpires and ministers, Parsons's work falls under the broader category of incentive research. "They are about what causes people to behave in predictable ways, and how that changes over time," he... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
bonuses were equal in amount—500 rupees (about $7.80) per week, or roughly 27 percent of normal pay. Positioning a Sales Bonus The researchers set up an experiment to test the effectiveness of incentive pay... View Details
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Olivia Zhao
incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for... View Details