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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Competition and Speculation in Cryptocurrencies

By: Alex A. Wu and Justin Katz
We examine how mutual fund managers' performance incentives generated speculative demand during the 2020-2022 cryptocurrency boom and bust. Managers with strong relative performance incentives began investing in crypto after their competitors began investing in it,... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mutual Funds; Competition; Investment; Decision Making
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    Jillian J. Jordan

    Jillian Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.

    Professor Jordan’s research investigates moral... View Details

    • 30 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper

      V.G. Narayanan

      Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
      • March 2007
      • Article

      Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

      By: Julie Wulf
      I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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      • October 2005 (Revised August 2006)
      • Case

      Perelson Weiner LLP

      By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Das Narayandas
      Perelson Weiner LLP, a successful accounting firm in New York City, is re-evaluating its incentive strategy as it makes plans to grow its business. View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Growth and Development; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Planning; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Accounting Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      • January–February 2021
      • Article

      Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

      By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
      By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
      Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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      • 19 Sep 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

      that have eschewed incentive compensation have had to face a steady stream of defections once the junior investors have mastered the venture process. After too many board meetings in which the corporate investor parks his Fiesta next to... View Details
      Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
      • News

      IAE Compliance In Short Part Two

      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm

      By: Dylan Minor
      We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and the magnitude of environmental harm by over 100%. We document... View Details
      Keywords: Misconduct; Environmental Performance; Accounting Scandal; Sustainable Finance; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
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      • 30 Aug 2006
      • Op-Ed

      The Compensation Game

      organizational affiliations, and social standing. Directors must be given strong incentives to focus on shareholder interests. Compensation arrangements for sports stars lack the features of executive pay arrangements in other ways as... View Details
      Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
      • Research Summary

      Current Research

      Professor Chung models the effect of incentive compensation to study its impact on the sales force. Using data from a Fortune 500 company, he has developed a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus-based compensation plan and examined how various... View Details

      • June 2000
      • Case

      Risk Management and Leasing at Nissan Motor Corporation, USA

      Market pressures, accounting, and managerial incentives can result in managerial choices that have a long-term detrimental effect on the firm. View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Value; Decision Choices and Conditions; Accounting; Auto Industry
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      • 07 May 2021
      • News

      IAE Compliance In Short Part One

      • July 2016
      • Case

      'Golden Leash' Pay for Directors at The Dow Chemical Company

      By: Ian Gow, Suraj Srinivasan and Neeraj Goyal
      In November 2014, The Dow Chemical Company was faced with the prospect of a proxy battle with prominent hedge fund and activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Investment Activism; Chemical Industry
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      • 16 Feb 2016
      • First Look

      February 16, 2016

      link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50591 Do Incentive Plans for Exemplary Employees Lead to Productive or Counterproductive Outcomes? By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using data from a retail chain, this... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Paige Tsai

        Paige Tsai is PhD candidate in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research broadly examines the effects of job design on employees. Her current projects explore the financial and well-being effects of holding multiple jobs,... View Details
        Keywords: service industry; restaurant; retailing; hotels ＆ motels
        • 19 Feb 2019
        • News

        Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

        • Research Summary

        STATUS

        In his work on status orders, Professor Malter studies the ways in which status orders affect the returns to organizations, the incentives and opportunities in markets, social market structure, and firm decisions. Using data on a highly structured wine region of... View Details

          Yiwei Li

          Yiwei Li is a Doctoral student of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He concentrates on managerial accounting research, with interest in topics like incentive scheme and management control system. He pursues the goal  of applying research output into... View Details