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- March 2018
- Case
GiveDirectly
How should nonprofits design compensation systems to attract and retain talent? GiveDirectly is a respected charitable organization with an unconventional approach. Instead of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofits; Charity; Effective Altruism; International Aid; Compensation; Goals; Bonuses; Incentives; GiveDirectly; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Recruitment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Beshears, John, Joshua Schwartzstein, Tiffany Y. Chang, and Brian J. Hall. "GiveDirectly." Harvard Business School Case 918-036, March 2018.
- winter 2003
- Article
Incentives: Getting What You Pay For
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Incentives: Getting What You Pay For." ECR Journal (winter 2003).
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
While net worth is on the rise for most Americans, the picture is only getting dimmer for the country's poorest families: For the 11.3 percent of Americans living below the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Oct 2009
- News
"I Read Playboy for the Articles"
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Stock exchanges as auditors? The stock exchanges should be responsible for hiring and firing auditors, negotiating their fees, and overseeing the outcomes of the audits themselves, say Healy and Palepu. As they see it, the exchanges have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
for HBS alumni. The two parties are bitter rivals, but unlike a business duopoly, they “cooperate in setting the rules and structuring the game of competition,” Porter says. Ultimately, Gehl adds, “We get gridlock and increasing... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
Why Apps for Managing Chronic Disease Haven't Been Widely Used, and How to Fix It
While chronic disease management (CDM) apps have had some initial success, they have not yet lived up to their potential. This shortcoming is not due to the technologies, which are quite impressive; the problem is the incentives and institutions of the delivery system... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
through our computers and phones. Remote work has given top leaders incentives to use these communication technologies to not only communicate with every individual in the organization but even meet their pets and check out their living... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the funds—at the state level the Massachusetts Transportation Authority will issue revenue bonds to finance construction. While it is true the cost of the project has risen from $2.2 billion in 1983 (not indexed for inflation) to $14.6... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Susanna Gallani
At HBS, Professor Gallani teaches in the Executive Education Program for Leadership Development and in focused Executive Education programs, including Managing Health Care Delivery, Driving Corporate Performance, and several programs focused on the implementation of... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health of the corporate brain and the organizational culture of which it is a part. View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2012 (Revised February 2017)
- Teaching Note
Henkel: Building a Winning Culture
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This is the teaching note for Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (HBS No. 112-060) View Details
- 21 Dec 2012
- News
Kathy Giusti's Quest for a Cure
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
European winters—on the brain. And he thinks you should, too. Froot, the André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has spent more than 15 years researching how the reinsurance industry—which provides insurance View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research
By: George Serafeim
A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Serafeim, George. "The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-110, May 2014.
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A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction
By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert and Alvin E. Roth
A choice prediction competition is organized that focuses on decisions from experience in market entry games (http://sites.google.com/site/gpredcomp/ and http://www.mdpi.com/si/games/predict-behavior/). The competition is based on two experiments: An estimation... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Game Theory; Behavior; Competition
Erev, Ido, Eyal Ert, and Alvin E. Roth. "A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction." Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (June 2010): 117–136.