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  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

based on value. Value-based competition will serve to drive innovation. 4. Moving to value-based competition has important strategic implications for providers as well as health plans and employers. Providers: In an environment where... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive risk and how best to mitigate it. This case describes the government restrictions on executive pay for TARP recipients and delves into the debate on executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

efforts to build and run an innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the center goes through different periods of leadership and strategic models, its relationship with the corporation and other research sites is explored. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the nature of the relationship between first-party content and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic decisions that we haven't even talked about at a policy level... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • September 2019
  • Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

instruments," said Rose. "Most of the firms on Wall Street followed each other around to the same parts of the market and ended up mimicking each other, which is a classic strategic failure. So when the subprime crisis hit they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.” “You find that people with two different viewpoints begin to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

never have a perfect image of his or her thoughts and feelings. In light of the strategic incentives to mask intentions in negotiation, the picture can be especially cloudy. Whatever impressions we form at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

capital. Purchase this working paper from SSRN: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12592   Cases & Course MaterialsFriendster (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-409 In January 2006, the president of Friendster needs to choose between two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Management Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Motivation and Incentives Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Ashley Whillans Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top N Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Navigating Your Worth: AI,... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran the numbers on the cost savings... View Details