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  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

culture. We also find wide variation across variables for ratings consistency among analysts covering the same firm. On average, consistency is higher for sell-side than buy-side analysts, consistent with sell-side analysts facing greater View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentive to consume more applications than the social optimum to better satisfy their preference for variety); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria); and (3) a coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

Teenagers for Business Careers after World War II By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—This article traces the growing popularity of Junior Achievement’s “Company Program” in the two decades after World War II. The program provided high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

their practices. Today's quality movement in healthcare is a welcomed step in the right direction, but it is not really focused on results; it is focused on methods, or processes of care. Q: What about pay for performance? A: Most pay for performance View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

redistribute the income so that everyone has the same money to spend. Of course, this would eliminate the incentives for anyone to work, so we can't achieve this "ideal" policy. But tags can help. We know that tall people are, for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

bank's shares. This contrasts with outside shareholders who are more likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

increased demand, but these plants are expensive to maintain. Besides, much of the key power equipment is aging rapidly. After government moved to weaken monopolies that utilities enjoyed, those companies had little incentive to invest in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving By: Sanders, Michael, Sarah Smith, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Many organizations, including corporations and governments, wish to encourage charitable giving, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

associates and partners to their firms. How new fee structures have shifted firms’ priorities The prioritization of growth has also led to record increases in the use of performance-based fees tied to client-achieved outcomes. While justified as aligning View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women and girls how to harness the power of negotiation, to her... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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