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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
products, as well as the regulations that sometimes stood in the way. Throughout, the case identifies incentives for both consumers and merchants, including direct costs, efficiency benefits, rebates, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
(in a pilot test) and experimental manipulations (Experiments 1, 2a, and 2b), we found that an essentialist mind-set is indeed hazardous for creativity, with the relationship mediated by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
purpose to orient a company's activities, lend strategic direction, distinguish the company's activities and position, and infuse meaning and View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
is seductive, and they are actually practicing medicine by micromanaging the payment system. I tell the story in the book about how Congress motivated clinics and doctors with... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
close eye on housing prices," he advised. The second broad problem facing the United States is weakness in its financial architecture, with excessive leverage across much of the industry, distorted incentives embedded in executive... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
pays the rest. "I’m really worried about what’s happened to our drug prices and the incentives we have embedded in our system to encourage high prices." After analyzing the drug expenses of more than 3... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
smaller companies who are used to accountability." Stever Robbins commented, "Why do we even spend our time debating whether a Fortune 500 CEO is 'worth it'? Why, instead, don't we seek to hire people who are so motivated to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Authors:Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Relationship Management, Fontana is entertaining the possibility of commercializing his innovation. Doing so may provide a welcome new source of income during the greatest economic slowdown in recent history, and it would help in keeping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
markets will provide incentives for companies to behave responsibly and companies will exhibit those behaviors because they'll have lower costs if they do. But that will depend on organizations like SASB,... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14
Yet, there are many criteria to consider. First, given the importance of ticketing to the Games' bottom line, he has a strong incentive to maximize revenues. Second, because the entire world will be watching, he wants to maximize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
consistent with the goals and motivations of the social sector,” they write. “Men, on the other hand, are seen to be stereotypically competitive, risk taking, and agentic,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
of different constituents; (4) balancing opportunities and attention; and (5) balancing the motives of human behavior. Management control systems are essential tools used by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne