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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

unit at Harvard Business School strives to be the worldwide leader in research, course development, and teaching on top managements' use of performance measurement systems to: Communicate with external investors to ensure that their... View Details

    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
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    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2016
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    March 1, 2016

    U.S. GAAP and IFRS for every topic covered in the book. For a preview of the book, please see: www.createspace.com/Preview/1186020. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50689 Infrastructure, Incentives and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

    came habitually late," Larkin says. Ultimately, the researchers concluded that rewarding one behavior sometimes can "crowd out" intrinsic motivation in another. Rewards that work Despite the fact that this particular award brought more harm than good, many other types... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
    • 20 Jun 2017
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

    traditional policy tools, such as tax incentives and other financial inducements, and we found that nudge interventions often compare favorably with traditional interventions. We conclude that nudging is a valuable approach that should be... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 2024
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    Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?

    By: Samuel Antill
    Chapter 7 is the most popular bankruptcy system for U.S. firms and individuals. Chapter 7 professional fees are substantial. Theoretically, high fees might be an unavoidable cost of incentivizing professionals. I test this empirically. I study trustees, the most... View Details
    Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Motivation and Incentives; Policy
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    • 20 May 2014
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    First Look: May 20

    future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jan 2008
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    First Look: January 15, 2008

    product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Mar 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

    system, the kind that used to be referred to by detractors as "socialized medicine." Worse yet, the current system leaves more than 40 million Americans without health insurance. Because many are not employed or have very low incomes,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
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    A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    question of the link between financial incentives and output, the Hawthorne researchers found that a worker might feel rewarded if she had pleasant associations with her co-workers and that this might mean more to her than a little extra... View Details
    • 28 Jul 2009
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    First Look: July 28

    best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast, competing certification View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 1998
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    Cash Management Practices in Small Companies

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly and Baltej Kochar
    Most small business managers claim that cash management is their leading concern. Often walking a tightrope between growth and illiquidity, small business managers face different cash management challenges than their counterparts in larger companies. Compared to larger... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Working Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Cash; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Business Strategy
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    • April 2007
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    Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
    We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Cooperation; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Research and Development; Motivation and Incentives; Investment; Price; Product Launch; Product
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    • 26 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 26, 2008

    co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Apr 2016
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    April 26

    Harm By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Apr 2019
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    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55884 April 2019 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence By: Blasco,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Jul 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

    governments to make their citizens do the right thing. In cases like enforcing pollution regulations, for example, fines are likely more effective, in part because the decisions that go into building a factory are slow and deliberative, taking into account all of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
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    Scaling Well by Doing Good: Motivating Talent at b.good

    By: Francesca Gino, Paul Green Jr. and Bradley Staats
    Boston-based fast-casual chain b.good was founded on the idea of healthy food, sourced locally, and prepared in-store. The founders had built a value-based business and worked hard to cultivate a sense of family—among employees, customers, and suppliers. In 2015, they... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation; Values; Corporate Culture; Growth Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New England
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    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    incentives to use outcome measures. Overcoming those barriers involves implementing the standardized ICHOM measure set and developing the IT systems to collect and manage the data. Ideally, this should occur... View Details