Motivation And Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

has more information on that dog than you do as a potential buyer or pet guardian, and that can lead to adverse situations,” Exley says. “The information asymmetry and search costs were what really View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

on-time performance, and offered to share equally with all employees 50 percent of the cost savings achieved by better service. Employees were motivated to achieve this goal View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

investors the only measure of performance for an organization, or is it one of many ways of measuring value creation? (3) Assuming Foster and Kaplan are right, how do we prepare and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise... View Details

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Preetham commented. Omer E. put it this way: "What this suggests is nothing more than the emergence of changing political tides." In fact, in M. F. Procaccini's words, "the whole 'mixed economy' models of the 20th Century View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

water on the idea that there’s no tradeoff—that you will naturally both save in real estate costs and get more collaboration from this kind of design. If the cost motive were sufficiently strong, there might... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

the basic management issues it raises—the value of Lincoln's clear and consistent approaches to strategy, organization, and what motivates workers." "Motivation is... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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