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  • December 2010
  • Teaching Note

Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer? (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris
Teaching Note for 211-011. View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk Management; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Opportunities; Decisions; Performance Effectiveness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Paraguay
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  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

patent holder are zero, and an "aggressive" form where they are strictly positive. Even though the patentee's profits are protected with the lost profits damage measure, innovation incentives are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

Like many companies, IBM took big strides to eliminate discrimination by attempting to ignore cultural, racial, and other differences among its vast worldwide workforce. That ended when Lou Gerstner became CEO. Gerstner initiated a... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

world of irrationality. Much of traditional economics becomes outmoded when complex relationships based on often counter-intuitive behaviors are taken into account. Instead of a management philosophy centered around the manager as the play-caller, assigning tasks View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: 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
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

R&D organizations, a clear relationship emerges: more long-term incentives (e.g., stock options and restricted stock) are associated with more heavily cited patents. These View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2025
  • Case

Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & the Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan
John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Perspective Taking; Liabilities; Family Business; Family Ownership; Business Growth and Maturation; Alignment; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict Management; Conflict of Interests; Power and Influence; Perception; Trust; Perspective; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Identity; Goals and Objectives; Legal Liability; Contracts; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Family and Family Relationships; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

Creativity" is scheduled to appear in the April 2001 issue. Asked by HBS Working Knowledge about her motivation for focusing on John Irving, Amabile replied, "I wanted to counteract a strong stereotype that people in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • September 1998 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Discovery Health (A)

A South African health insurance company undertakes a redesign of its prescription drug coverage policy in light of its experiences with Prozac. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

What is missing is any role for market forces in governance, with their promise to achieve better cost effectiveness and innovation in governance practice. The authors argue that governance-linked D&O insurance is a means toward that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

an affiliate program manager might be paid a modest salary plus 10 percent of year- over- year growth in the size of the affiliate program. But consider the incentives of someone paid in that way. If there is fraud in the affiliate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services