Motivation And Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The... View Details

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

most of these minorities fled or were killed. In other words, the country’s entrepreneurial elite were decimated. It proved a lengthy and challenging process over subsequent decades to build a new Muslim national business class employing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

properly beat the path that will lead them to its door, and all the mousetraps inside. Related Reading: The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team Money and Quotas Motivate the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

was the overall price of the deal—requiring months of complex number-crunching to determine the value of the investments and cost of the pay-outs over time. But both companies had incentive to come to an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

partners: the company's own employees. Figure out how to involve and motivate them. "That will vary depending upon the degree of unionization of the industry, of the company," he said. "One... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

possibility and addressed the possible practice on its merits and demerits. As Shadreck Saili put it, " all other methods we use seem to be part of neuromanagement any method that can be used to refine... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

put it, “Remember, if you lose personal liberty and privacy, you lose everything. Be very careful what you would wish for in the cause of ‘national interest’.” Commenting that it requires some subtlety to get this balance between security... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

January 2008
Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk

By: Frances X. Frei

Teaching Note for 602104. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Policy; Banks and Banking; Management Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Customers; Mathematical Methods; Service Operations; Banking Industry

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01 Apr 2014
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life-saving health products and services, whether to distribute them for free, or whether to give additional incentives for individuals to use them. This note describes the latest, cutting-edge research on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

and supports R&D by high-type incumbents and entry. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/AABK_130412.pdf Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

those in need. Specifically, managers throughout Pfizer, including its marketing and clinical staff, were motivated to pursue the use of Zithromax® [a Pfizer anitbiotic] in the prevention of trachoma.... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

another problem. Prices are set by a few big reinsurers, and they have every incentive to set those prices relatively high. "There's not enough price competition," says Froot. Unfortunately, prices... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne