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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
as so fundamental to leading people that it went without saying. Maybe more formal inquiries would reveal a recognition of the progress principle. To find out, we created a survey in which 669 managers ranked the importance of five... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
to the strategic implications of the Upgrade Program, financial analysts tried to understand the accounting implications, especially the recognition of revenue, which the Upgrade Program could have on Apple’s financials. Analysts’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
have derived one from our examinations of cross-sector collaborations in the Americas. A basic element is the recognition that there can exist a wide range of motivations across the partners and a mix of motivations for each partner. We... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
together to support community health There will be more recognition of the interconnected systems that account for the need for care, access to care, and care outcomes. The availability of jobs and their safety, housing density and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
multiple ways and installing reward and recognition programs. It also establishes new programs to align the extensive networks of suppliers and dealers to the strategy. But after a sharp decline in sales triggered by the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Abstract Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia, we design a field experiment to unbundle these mechanisms. We find that employer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
focus not just on financial rewards but on recognition as well. To that end, Lerner recommends that firms host innovation contests, wherein individuals or teams receive prizes for solving internal problems or creating new products—noting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
recognition with their partners to advance the mission, not their organizations. Q: Social entrepreneurship isn't just for NGOs, nonprofits, and philanthropists. What is the opportunity for corporate social entrepreneurship? A: My... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
should move beyond salary and traditional cash rewards to place greater emphasis on non-pecuniary, tangible and intangible rewards and recognition initiatives. We further highlight the importance of aligning rewards with universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting processes. The situation has been escalated to Vodafone’s audit committee, which expects Colao and his team to act drastically. In the second case, 7 million have been misreported through deferred View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Herzlinger hopes that the conference will springboard the recognition of teachers who create holistic curricula focused on strategy and innovation within the sector. "That would not be a minor result; it's a huge academic achievement.... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
suppliers. By elevating strategic objectives and measures for superior supplier relationships to the company's Balanced Scorecard, employees come to understand the value of forging strategic relationships with their key suppliers. This View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience. Simulation probably helps, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Fable? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Toby Stuart, and Yanbo Wang Abstract In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
situation, especially §230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a 1996 law largely meant to protect online platforms from defamation lawsuits. The CDA has been stretched beyond recognition to prevent all manner of prudent regulation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
geographies, it seems reasonable to expect the contest for recognition to intensify. Many moral gray zones provide readily available intra- and inter-occupational sorting mechanisms. In global labor markets, moral gray zones will likely... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace