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24 Sep 2013
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trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
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Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia

occurrence of problems such as overfishing.) Organizationally, Bazerman asserts that the U.S. government is hampered by bureaucratic fiefdoms with too little regulatory flexibility and a lack of collaboration across units and agencies.... View Details

March 2001 (Revised May 2002)
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Circon (B)

By: Brian J. Hall, Guhan Subramanian and Christopher A Rose

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed “good-bye” payments if things do not work out. These are one of the... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

that meet performance standards at reasonable costs. But in practice, too few government managers are skilled in understanding and using industry financial incentives or the process of controlling costs,... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

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Curriculum | MBA

internship in the second summer. A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below. MBA/MPP Year 1 Harvard Kennedy School Fall Term Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures Quantitative Analysis... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

will run on inertia with partisan gridlock blocking any change in direction. But in the 50 states there are 25 with a GOP governor, house, and senate (population 165 million), and 13 with complete Democrat control (population 81 million). There, united View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

01 Sep 2005
News

Trouble in Mouse Land

incentives support them in this regard.” Beaulieu says that class discussion moves back and forth between general questions around governance and Disney-specific examples. Due to extensive media coverage of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 1998
Supplement

General Bill Creech at Harvard Business School: October 6, 1995

By: Michael C. Jensen

General Bill Creech discusses motivation and change in the Tactical Air Command of the Air Force. View Details

Keywords: Change; National Security; Motivation and Incentives

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30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

managers who get things done. The second, Purpose, by Nikos Mourkogiannis, could really have been titled "Know Why." It describes four kinds of purpose, "starting points" that govern what great companies do and how... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

in the behaviors of employers purchasing health plans. In addition, some important system infrastructure needs to be put in place—rules and regulations that shift the incentives and create the right types of information. Let's look at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

When most people think of a company's organization chart, they put the chief executive officer at the top of the pyramid. But those with an interest in corporate governance know that's not correct. After all, the CEO reports to the board... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

customers. Clearly, the government has quite a different perspective as to what constitutes a high-quality emissions test." Importantly, cars that fail an emissions test at one facility are allowed to be retested at another facility.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

cannot make the decision alone. At a minimum, he has to develop an informal agreement among his senior colleagues. Often the firm's governance process dictates that the decision be made by all the partners (or a subset of the partnership)... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

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