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- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- September 2011
- Article
What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks?
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and David A. Maber
We use proprietary data from a major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts' portfolios, and... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Research; Compensation and Benefits; Investment Portfolio; Forecasting and Prediction; Resource Allocation; Status and Position; Business Earnings; Quality; Revenue; Stocks; Voting
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and David A. Maber. "What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks?" Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 4 (September 2011): 969–1000.
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
These results provide some of the first field-based evidence on the potential for a firm's balanced scorecard to provide useful information for detecting problems in its strategy. February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Are Incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
(FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in low-tax countries. On the other hand, weak investor protections in foreign countries may increase the value of control, creating an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
incentives, such as “badges” and social status on a platform, are often used to encourage and steer contributions. I then discuss other issues including business models, network effects, and privacy. Throughout the paper, I discuss open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We present the results of a 10-day field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
question the status quo and consider alternative ways of doing business. This sense of "organizational unease" was encouraged by Humana's CEO-founder, who twice before had shifted the company's course to a brand-new industry. As... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 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 motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
competing in current or new markets (i.e., new customers and/or new geographies). [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/ugHI2ETiABnZVxAuNYu9][/div] First Quadrant: Firms stay in the status quo or pre-COVID situation. As discussed earlier,... View Details
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status quo. Empirical research has been difficult because we lack data on comparable private firms and because firms likely self-select into going public. We construct a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
we see so frequently in the real world." The Lab Experiments The research team conducted a series of experiments to study the effect of two important hormones: testosterone (associated with decreased fear and increased sensitivity to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
“People might be intimidated to approach the sales superstar and reveal that they are having problems because of self-image issues,” Stanton says. “And the best salespeople may want to hold on to their information because it gives them View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
subordinates' ideas or wishes). We found that employees' perceptions of team leader support were more negative when the leader engaged in three types of ineffective behavior: (1) monitoring the work ineffectively (checking on the status... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
Washingtonian magazine, said in an opinion piece last May that employees working from home should worry about keeping their jobs. She noted “if the employee is rarely around,” there is a “strong incentive to change their View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address consumers' demands for safety.... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
time(s)." August Ray said, "They will work long and hard, provided they care." Phil Dourado suggests that they will reward their subordinates for changing things rather than maintaining the status quo. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- March 2017
- Case
Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details
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Rivkin, Jan W., and Amram Migdal. "Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger." Harvard Business School Case 717-469, March 2017.