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  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

payments in the remaining months. Concerns about later-life income, spending flexibility, and counterparty risk are the most important self-reported motives that influence the annuitization decision.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

firms subject to monitoring, have incentives to downplay problems they observe in order to satisfy and retain their clients. This paper discusses the most important factors that our research View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Minal Mehta

"Teaching BollyX classes and running BollyX actually makes me better at both jobs. As a cocreator of the BollyX workout, I absolutely love teaching BollyX classes. Feeling the energy and vibe of the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

U.S. Senator) Tom Coburn (R-OK) argue against a government-run public market for health insurance. Reform must include incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, which only a private market could... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9

Wakeman, and Francesca Gino Abstract—When entering task performance contexts we generally have expectations about both the task and how well we will perform on it. When those expectations go unmet, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

strategy, creating high levels of customer satisfaction, or motivating people to navigate complex matrix organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-051.pdf Substitution Patterns of the Random Coefficients Logit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

motivated you and your HBS colleagues to develop a course specifically for leaders of professional service firms? Lorsch: Professional service firms represent an $80 billion industry worldwide. In the US... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
  • 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
Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Sports
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models suggest that boards design View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

skillful negotiators can effectively manage both incentives and penalties. Publisher's link: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/24/like_a_boss_nuclear_talks_iran   Working Papers Sovereigns,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving By: Sanders, Michael, Sarah Smith, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Many organizations, including corporations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 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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  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

Case 609-080 At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607082 CommonAngels Harvard Business School Case 807-149 Describes the motivations behind the founding of CommonAngels—a group of successful business owners who provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace