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‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge

precedent The finding has implications for economic development policy, says Sadun. For example, companies often receive incentives to invest in technology or property. In the future, she suggests, policymakers should consider... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

communities. As large, important local employers, they have strong incentive to improve local residents’ health profile. By partnering with local health agencies to extend successful in-house employee and dependent diabetes prevention... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the market has in assessing the impact of these bills. Consistent with the legislator incentive mechanism, the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

relationship: the best customer. Ironically, we find that firing the customer is often a case of blaming the victim: managers remain largely unaware of their own roles in creating the unprofitable customers they seek to shed. We reveal how CRM View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

An Eye to the East

is part of the HBS Global Initiative spearheaded by Dean Kim B. Clark to ensure that the School fosters a global culture in its curriculum and programs and instills an international outlook among its students. Even though HBS faculty have... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

with the overall district strategy. The case emphasizes the details of implementation and documents the challenges and achievements of the program over four years. The key issue in the case is achieving high performance in all schools,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-038.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsFood Security and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Harvard Business School Case 508-002 The Mormon Church focuses on self-reliance and being prepared for emergencies. Part of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

everything else.” That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that encouraged the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don’t evoke... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

"repatriation taxes" that occur under the US system of worldwide taxation. Simply put, multinational firms currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

implicit incentives in the form of sharp increases in employee termination linked to "excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811077-PDF-ENG Braddock Industries, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-061 This case examines the drivers of economic value creation for shareholders and how these drivers are reflected in various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50643 Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

in information analytics, attempting to get their arms around the wide array of patient data. Government incentives are helping the push. In 2011, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services established View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came up with the idea... View Details