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  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

to a subscription model to ensure that they gain buy-in from the sales force, provide the right incentives to spur sales, and, perhaps most importantly, facilitate a shift away from one-time sales to managing an ongoing, long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • March 2023
  • Supplement

Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers' incentives to make long-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

confusion and toward known elements of performance. Our findings provide insights about benefits and pitfalls that managers may need to consider when implementing 360° performance assessment programs as a complement to View Details
  • Web

IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

also examine the role of Singapore in the evolving geopolitical environment. We will spend time on the various ways in which the Singapore Government has helped create the infrastructure, workforce, policies and incentives that attract... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Firms Use Non-linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence Authors: Ian Larkin and Stephen Leider Abstract Non-linear incentive schemes are commonly used to determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

programs can still be successful without the traditional partnership structure." But XTV's example, they continue, also suggests "some of the difficulties that these efforts encounter and the apparent importance of having a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 06 Dec 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in free-trade zones to build linkages with... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Israel - Global Activities 2021

program director of the School’s Agribusiness Seminar, to author the case. “We are in the middle of a desert without a lot of rainfall.” Reinhardt, who notes that Golan’s on-the-ground presence in Israel was instrumental in writing the... View Details
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

entail major changes in the current team structure and incentive program within Frito-Lay. Johnson needed to think carefully about this change implementation. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

are hoping that the financial incentives in the new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) help us underscore the importance of EVs as a solution for the grid to reduce electric loads.” However, Claire admitted that full EV adoption is a long way... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been corrupted by the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne