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- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
participation—or closed. This paper reviews factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms. At the platform provider and sponsor levels, these decisions entail 1) interoperating with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
integrated back in. "But to try to take your core business, if your market's going through a fundamental shift, and migrate it on the fly without separating it out is a very big challenge." View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the welfare rolls, revitalized urban... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
and welfare. We find three main results. First, we show that allowing patent pools may reduce welfare when standards are negotiated and patent pools need to be ex-post 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
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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
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career teachers. Teach Plus began as a pilot in fall 2007, launched by Celine Coggins,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
there is no significant relationship between service quality and profitability. My findings highlight the importance of attending to process discipline in certain service settings. They also show that too much corporate emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
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
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
alleged short-term nature of capital markets, and the way the human thought process works. Overcoming roadblocks requires public policies to be much more aligned with creating the right incentives to support... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
cable providers to be included in their lineups, which spurred the channel's rapid growth. "They reached out to all these local cable companies and gave them financial incentives to broadcast Fox News... View Details
- 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
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, and Marco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne