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- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
with what motivates peoples’ actions and behaviors, and that is how I ended up being an environmental studies major in college with a business concentration. I have also taken... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that self-help peer groups encouraged greater savings, there was another question to answer: Why? Were members motivated by public goal setting? Regular feedback? Shame at not meeting targets? The researchers suspected increased... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
But the article also shows how individuals behave in concert because of the self-fueling trajectory in which response provokes response, in either positive or negative directions, in what are more popularly termed winning streaks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1988
- Chapter
The Expected Utility of Playing a Game
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The Expected Utility of Playing a Game." In The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley, edited by A. E. Roth, 51–70. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
determining who is going to be the likely winner here," he says. "Some organizations may have the capability to integrate patient data, but may not have enough credibility with the consumer. And some may not have the View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
and 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
"Plugging In" the Consumer: The Adoption of Electrically Powered Vehicles in the U.S. (TN)
By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 510076. View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
David Woodman
Managing Director of the Americas for Motive Television, President and co-founder Transformative Content Inc, General Manager Comcast SportsNet New England, Managing Director Sci-Fi Channel Europe, Director... View Details
- September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Discovery Health (B)
By: Samuel S. Chun and Shaun Matisonn
A South African health insurance company grapples with designing a financially viable coverage solution for a new prescription drug treatment for male impotence. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
Chun, Samuel S., and Shaun Matisonn. "Discovery Health (B)." Harvard Business School Case 599-047, September 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
rich collection of feasible governance structures. Our model focuses on two issues emphasized by practitioners: spillover effects (as opposed to hold-ups motivated by specific investments) and contracting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
An Inside Look at the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - Facebook Live
Harathi and Emily Batt. They discuss the motivations for pursuing the MS/MBA program, the joint cohort and section experience, how the curriculum View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
between April 2003 and March 2004. The firm's relative performance incentive scheme rewards a worker for outperforming her co-workers. We find that a worker does not act on the monetary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
ties to competitors impede innovation, and that this effect is moderated by several factors related to the intermediary's opportunities and motivation to leak important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- October 2017
- Article
Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices
By: Christine L. Exley and Jeffrey K. Naecker
Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment technology: the desire to signal to others. We... View Details
Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker. "Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices." Management Science 63, no. 10 (October 2017): 3262–3267.
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne