Motivation and Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial market. The authors argue that the incentive to distort these benchmarks is severe given the benchmarks' polling nature and the sheer volume of the derivative market linked to these rates. The... View Details

28 Oct 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Research - Health Care

Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an View Details

07 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture

personally and professionally, and why he just trademarked it. You were able to trademark the term "FOMO" recently. What motivated you to take this step? "I coined the term... View Details

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

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17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

Related Reading Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate Where will artificial intelligence View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

success"). The importance of choice varies from one culture to another, particularly between "individualist" (where it is more important) and "collectivist" societies. This means that no one approach to organizing... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

you to be where you are today, and it means knowing that you have to do your best every day so that perhaps one day you will come close to paying them back for all that they have done for you. My heritage is both my reminder to always be... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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which share an unmistakable synergy: “I’m just trying to put wind at the backs of black women,” she says. It was the reason she broke her silence. It’s the motivation behind her startup—which she plans to pick up again as soon as the dust... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow your career. 6 weeks 6-7 hours per week 6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion... View Details

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

and work with my team to help where we can. I have tried to stay motivated and to be thankful, even when things did not look so bright. I must confess that last year I felt all... View Details

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

priorities of shareholder management are clear: shareholders have the loudest voice and the greatest influence. Some may argue that this notion became distorted by an element of agency theory that advocated outsized View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to... View Details

02 Jun 2016
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Applying to the JD/MBA Program

I thought the JD would give me a rigorous academic framework to engage with policies and regulations, and the MBA would give me a diverse network and allow me to think about... View Details

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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

access and trust them. For that reason, she works to find ways to reverse engineer the prediction model to gain some insight into the relationships between variables and the purchasing View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

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