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Globalization - Faculty & Research

returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to slow or speed up mean reversion in... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Juliane Begenau & Erik Stafford NOV 2019 By decomposing bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank business model, Juliane and Erik shed light on the bank’s View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

ecosystem. It charges users only a moderate fee to coordinate their trading activities. Incentives such as the PowerSeller label reinforce standards for sellers that benefit the entire ecosystem. These View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

profit planning Identify critical performance variables and develop goals, measures, and targets corresponding to them Analyze a range of incentive types and identify the most useful ones for different... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Publisher's Link: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470392509.html How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA TOUR Authors:Douglas Fearing, Jason Acimovic, and Stephen C. Graves... View Details

    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
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    What Really Motivates Workers

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
    This essay appears in "The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Research; Performance Improvement; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity
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    Research - Health Care

    Right Incentives. By: Susanna Gallani and Derek A. Haas Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing so is to create an incentive system that... View Details
    • April 2019
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    Barber Cardiosystems

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Paul S. Myers
    Barber Cardiosystems, based in Melbourne, Australia, designs and manufactures therapeutic devices used for treatment of coronary conditions. Over four decades, it has grown to be among the top 200 medical device companies in the world. It competes against much larger... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategic Alignment; Cost Management; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Design; Strategy; Leadership; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Australia
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    • 22 Mar 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

    to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement." Conant decided to grow the soup business, and he championed the idea of "winning" on two fronts--in the workplace and in the marketplace. To... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
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    Leading Successful Digital Transformation

    card processors like Mastercard. However, the company's philosophy is not to resist the natural trend of technology, but instead lean in and work with multiple players and redefine its role in the new ecosystem. Reskilling: All these changes require new skills and... View Details
    • 02 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Negotiating in Three Dimensions

    set-up error (among many): It is easy to make one kind of mistake in your choice of negotiating agents. You know the importance of using a skilled and knowledgeable negotiating agent as well as crafting a contract that aligns your agent's View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2022
    • Conference Presentation

    Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness

    By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
    Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    • 09 Aug 2016
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    August 9, 2016

    paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51309 Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology By: Stern, Ariel Dora Abstract—This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Sep 2013
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    First Look: September 10

    those created by well-designed policy (the PPF). Specifically, this note analyzes how differences in governance structure, termination capabilities, funding mechanisms, and asset management policies created distinctly different financial outcomes and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2011
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    First Look: April 26

    April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

    very lowest grade would have the incentive to disclose," says Luca. Despite that theory of "information unraveling," however, in reality that is generally not what happens. In the case of restaurants, very few voluntarily... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 31 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

    getting up from their desks and taking a long walk. Companies can even build in incentives or rewards for workers who follow through. “Employees aren’t going to ask for time to work on their own wellness. In fact, workers will say they... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • 14 Nov 2017
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    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the Index selected 400 large and liquid firms deemed best performing in terms of profitability; membership is considered highly prestigious. We document... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel