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- 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
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
can't mess things up too badly. I've also had terrific mentors who've taught me how to teach. And there's nothing more motivating than seeing that lightbulb come on. If you teach View Details
- 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
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
it did not actively lobby to expand, which is what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did. By making the guarantor of last resort a government entity, we hope to limit its incentive to expand. View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
testing operations against those micro-markets that were peppered with facilities, reasoning that the more facilities in any given area, the higher the competition—and the higher the incentive to bestow leniency on customers. "We... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon EmissionsResearch has shown that reducing carbon emissions and exhibiting good environmental performance are important for corporations.... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
some minorities—those who eventually became executives—avoided that fate. What kept them motivated and prepared to take advantage of opportunities that arrived belatedly? A common thread among them was their... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 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
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Existing corporate structures, controls, and incentives do work against out-of-the-box thinking. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has just published a Harvard Business Review article on the topic,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
predictable irrationality in citizens and consumers by "nudging" them by means of economic incentives to act in ways that regulators believe are in citizens' best interests. Lest we underplay the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
single year. This paper first documents that moves between paid work and self-employment are common and consistent with experimentation to learn about entrepreneurial earnings. This pattern View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
contends that policy makers more often reacted to political motives and pressure from business interests, while couching their actions in green language. In fact, government activities such as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, providers received a fixed-dollar budget to cover all care provided to a specific patient population, as well as incentive payments for quality. The AQC was piloted in 2009 by a handful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne