Government Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

$5 billion construction investment. “This is the ultimate opportunity,” Moret recalls thinking at the time. He had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of VEDP only about eight months, and the commonwealth was not known for the generous View Details

Keywords: Government; Government

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

Working PapersParallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract This paper presents econometric evidence of two... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

country’s own digital security agency handles all encryption. Genta, who brings to his role a background in business leadership at Google, Amazon, and Orange, also worked with his team to develop the Monaco ID card, a secure way for a user to log in online and easily... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2020
News

Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

drives accountability in any industry,” observes Gehl. “Final-Five Voting is less about changing who gets elected and far more about changing the incentives governing the behavior of those in office. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

01 Jun 2004
News

Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health

but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. View Details

Keywords: Merck; public health; global public health; vaccines; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed sources of revenue, relax View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and the latest example of zero-sum competition. If drugs are too expensive, let's get the government to pay more. Now that healthcare costs have gotten so high, it is squeezing consumers, employers, state governments, and federal... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Mar 2009
News

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

argues has set in rather silently since the 1970s. With Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave, Madrick, a wonderfully passionate contrarian, argues that we’ve been brainwashed to believe that more government and higher taxes translate to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

anger and blame stage. They are moving out of denial, but the corporate response emphasizes stopping "them" rather than innovating. Case in point: The U.S. auto industry. When threatened by superior Japanese imports, domestic automakers at first sought View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

counterintuitive driver: the fact that in the US, pharmaceutical companies subsidize the purchase of their drugs. Medicare, the government insurer for elderly or disabled people in the US, encourages patients who can’t afford their drug... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

government incentives to bolster their arguments. This view was characterized by Mark Townsend Cox, who commented, "I can count almost twenty methods of creating electricity without burning something,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2012
News

Just Compensation

a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

is all this misconduct occurring now? A: I think it's the confluence of several factors: the use of powerful incentive packages, an exuberance that pushed equity prices to heights that were hard to justify economically and yet were very... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

17 Jan 2007
Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

the boardroom. When people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully. If individual votes were published, directors would have greater incentive to air... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services