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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
effectively is a governance issue as well as a prerequisite for profitable growth.” Related Reading Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Want a Happy Customer?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
maximization of profit" and the development of the field of "agency theory" by "Chicago School" alumni which clearly positioned the manager as the agent of the shareholder. They advocated larger performance-based... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
tenants to pay the cost of utilities, which reduces a landlord's incentive to invest in LEED, or in other energy efficiency capital expenditures. However, government lessees are attractive to landlords because they come with predictable... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
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
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
properly beat the path that will lead them to its door, and all the mousetraps inside. Related Reading: The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team Money and Quotas Motivate the... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard 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
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
& Company, where he worked on commercializing biologic therapies for autoimmune diseases. Leading market research and patient support program development gave Hunter a chance to interact with hundreds of patients View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
investors are diverse, including top-tier traditional venture funds and specialty funds that focus on diverse founders, and very experienced and successful angels, many of whom... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
At first blush, the consumer appeal of a business like Groupon seems pretty obvious. The popular deal-of-the-day Internet start-up sells vouchers to restaurants, spas, and other local businesses at major markdowns--and who wouldn't want... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
and supports R&D by high-type incumbents and entry. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/AABK_130412.pdf Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
partners: the company's own employees. Figure out how to involve and motivate them. "That will vary depending upon the degree of unionization of the industry, of the company," he said. "One... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on entrepreneurial self-organization,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
another problem. Prices are set by a few big reinsurers, and they have every incentive to set those prices relatively high. "There's not enough price competition," says Froot. Unfortunately, prices... View Details
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What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?
When Hitoshi Yamasaki of Mitsubishi applied to the HBS Executive Education Advanced Management Program (AMP) in 2020, he already knew something about the learning experience at HBS. Several years earlier, he had attended the General Management Program (GMP) View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge vault about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6232.html. Why Do Countries Adopt International... View Details