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  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

EtiAmmos The tax policy we choose as a society reveals our collective values. That is why battles over it are so fierce—and justified. When we debate tax policy, we are debating what kind of society we want and what role we want the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

said, only 4 percent of the money raised by venture capital funds went to women- and minority-led business plans; at the same time, these ventures were growing at two to three times the rate of other businesses. Market View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

Indeed, Morgantown's system provides more than 10,000 rides per day, continuing for decades with good reliability. Q: What is the potential now for PRTs to "take off," so to speak? What are the incentives both for PRT businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 08 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

represented in the company’s leadership was attractive. The second step was building a pipeline within the company. “You need to look for talented, motivated people at every level who have the potential to move up, View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

new options; these offer another opportunity to reach the pot of gold and even recoup previous losses. "The upshot of this approach," says Hall, "is that CEOs have a carrot and a stick in... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Music Downloads: Pirates-or Customers?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

motivation for working all these hours is not actually to produce high-quality work. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” Confronting deeply held beliefs has been part of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives Creativity in a Crunch Nobody's Perfect. Now What? Last spring, a special symposium was held on campus in celebration of faculty research. The one-day... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

good results, particularly if financial and other incentives are tied to these results and commitments are in terms of future goals and targets.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Our analysis focuses on the forecasting process and how it mediates and accommodates the functional biases that can impair the forecast accuracy. We categorize the sources of functional bias into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

everywhere." Talent magnets and motivation machines. Talented people with many options are increasingly attracted to companies and stay there because of compatible values.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

relationship in practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38678 Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

“Defined benefit (DB) plans have largely gone the way of the dodo,” Beshears said in a recent interview. “They’ve been replaced with defined contribution (DC) plans. In those situations, it’s incumbent upon the individual to be saving enough View Details
Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

require construction of broader coalitions of policymakers, place more constraints on executive decision making, and have more competitive selection processes. As a result, there are stronger political View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace