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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
applications to be granted! Furthermore, the new orientation creates strong incentives for the patent office to process applications as quickly as possible, and at the lowest possible cost. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 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
- 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
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm... 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
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business," she says. Dear Diary As a way to delve deeper into the link between View Details
- 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
- 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
- Article
The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees
By: Ian Larkin, L. Pierce and F. Gino
Larkin, Ian, L. Pierce, and F. Gino. "The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees." Strategic Management Journal 33, no. 10 (October 2012): 1194–1214.
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
advising on everything from the type of auction to run to where to set reserve prices. “Tech firms have also hired economists to solve challenges relating to the choice of outcome of advertising, such as pay-per-click versus alternatives,” the paper states. The role of... View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
compensation, how can managers motivate and promote freelancers? "Managers can motivate part-timers or gig workers in several ways. The first is to make them feel fully... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank
By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Heese, Jonas. "Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank." Harvard Business School Case 122-022, April 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
this field experiment. Q: What were the motives of people who allowed your experimenters to cut in line? Why didn't many of them accept payment? And if money wasn't an issue, why did higher payments... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
avoid approaches that could undermine one another (e.g., economic incentives crowding out intrinsic incentives). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51300 Notes on Developing a Strategy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
how best to motivate contest entrants, and the research team has focused on these motivating factors. One important finding: Independent innovators are more likely to enter a... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
make you feel less safe by making you conscious of just how much you are giving away? A new working paper finds that it’s more likely to be the latter. “Even if a privacy policy is meant to be assuaging, it can prime you to think about privacy, View Details