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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

By: Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung and Karim R. Lakhani
What might motivate employees to participate in internal crowdsourcing, a peer-based approach to innovation? Should organizations use incentives that are congruent with their established hierarchical structures, or should they use incentives that are aligned with the... View Details
Keywords: Online Platforms; Employee Engagement; Managerial Recognition; Innovation and Management; Employees; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 1983
  • Chapter

Incentives for Ocean Mining Under the Convention

By: James K. Sebenius and Lance Antrim
Keywords: Mining; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; International Relations; Trade; Mining Industry
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  • Article

Financial Incentives for Exercise Adherence in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

By: Marc S. Mitchell, Jack M. Goodman, David A. Alter, Leslie K. John, Paul I. Oh, Maureen T. Pakosh and Guy E. Faulkner
Context Less than 5% of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health. Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based, population-level health interventions to address this issue. Despite widespread implementation of... View Details
Keywords: Exercise; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2003
  • Working Paper

Incentives versus Synergies in Markets for Talent

By: Bharat N. Anand, Alexander Galetovic and Alvaro Stein
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  • Research Summary

Motivation and Incentive Design

Professor Ashraf's research in motivation and incentives focuses on how to design incentives in sectors where it is important that individuals are motivated by service, such as healthcare or environmental conservation. An important lever is the... View Details

  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    Getting the Most Out of Financial Incentives for Weight Loss

    The use of employer-sponsored, incentive-based programs for weight loss is growing. This growth is likely to accelerate in the coming years due to a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which allows employers to use a greater proportion of... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

    By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
    We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • Summer 2018
    • Article

    CSR needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics

    By: Thomas Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David Vogel and Frank Wijen
    Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Communication; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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    • November 2012
    • Article

    Empirical Observations on Longer-term Use of Incentives for Weight Loss

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
    Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money down toward losing weight, which they... View Details
    Keywords: Weight Loss; Obesity; Behavioral Economics; Intervention; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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    • December 2008
    • Background Note

    Incentives in the NFL (Abridged)

    By: Brian J. Hall, Andrew Wasynczuk, Jonathan Paul Lim, Sara del Nido and Katherine Dowd
    This note briefly describes compensation and incentive issues in one of the major US professional sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL). It first provides some background information on the labor market for players and the salary cap, and then describes... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Wages; Groups and Teams; Conflict of Interests; Motivation and Incentives; Sports Industry; United States
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It

    By: Kash Rangan, Lisa Chase and Sohel Karim
    The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that contrasts sharply with the prevailing Shared Value framework offered by Porter and Kramer (HBR; Jan.-Feb. 2011). We assert that, despite... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Values and Beliefs; Profit; Practice
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    • 10 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li & George Serafeim
    • April 2010
    • Teaching Note

    Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China

    By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
    Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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    • 1998
    • Working Paper

    CEO Incentives and Firm Size

    By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
    What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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    • May 2012
    • Article

    Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices with Incentives for Truth-telling

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
    Cases of clear scientific misconduct have received significant media attention recently, but less flagrant transgressions of research norms may be more prevalent and in the long run more damaging to the academic enterprise. We surveyed over 2,000 psychologists about... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Practice; Motivation and Incentives; Surveys; Values and Beliefs; Measurement and Metrics
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    • 1982
    • Chapter

    Statistical Decision Theory Requiring Incentives for Information Transfer

    By: Jerry R. Green
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    • December 1988 (Revised November 1989)
    • Case

    Provigo, Inc. (A): Management Incentives for Superior Performance

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    • 18 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

    Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    CSR Under the Pressure of Financial Shocks

    By: Monica Kabutey, Syrena Shirley and Anywhere Sikochi
    This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced firms' interactions with customers and suppliers. Customer-supplier relationships are essential because the success of interconnected firms affects the sustainability of the entire supply chain. We use the... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Supply Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Crisis
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