Reward - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

and for what share? Or has the culture of "free" become so deeply imbedded in the minds of a new generation of users that content developers can only hope for partial, occasional, or eventual financial rewards for their efforts?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

including hiring, training, and firing personnel. All reward teams at all levels for performance. All provide generally unmonitored time for employees to develop product and service innovations as well as either redesign their jobs or... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

lobbying efforts in local and federal circles for stricter regulations governing Airbnb. The study focused on data from 2014, and the impact on hotels could be even greater today given Airbnb's strong growth since then. In addition to access to more rooms, travelers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Sheikh extended this idea when he proposed that, "the number of work hours should be dictated by productivity—i.e., very productive individuals in an organization should be rewarded with greater time off (within) upper and lower... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

problem at the World Bank? A: It is not a new idea that politics drive the allocation of aid decisions. But the view of politics that we normally have is that donors like the United States, Japan, or France may reward their friends rather... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns, influenced by disclosure requirements,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

Rakesh Khurana and I argue is that you can't reward senior management for something over which they have limited control, and shareholder value is not something that most managers can totally control. The economic performance of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

compensation committee of a major corporation knows that the coming "proposals" for the preservation of option grants at the top (supported by compensation consultant recommendations) will be based on such things as reward for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

book is obsolete in an era where the greatest value a partner provides is in the ideas they possess and not the wage rate they pay. Partners must be encouraged to share ideas, which can only be accomplished if they share in the spoils that come from their realization.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

in. Employees were warned that pay was at risk if the targets weren’t met. According to one BloombergBusinessweek report, “They were targeting the highly paid, highly experienced engineers.” One flight test group member commented, “It was a climate that didn’t View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

them. They lose in the long run." During the seminar, Hall outlined three reasons executives should give great consideration to becoming value creators: What goes around comes around. Executives shouldn't look to create value only because they hope to receive a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

fundamental challenges of science-based businesses: 1) managing and rewarding long-term risk, 2) integrating across technical disciplines, and 3) learning. Whereas these challenges were once managed inside the boundaries of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Reinhardt. But he was not convinced. "Maybe [Browne] thought customers would reward BP at the gas pump for being environmentalists ... I don't know how you buy gasoline, but I buy gasoline at the station that's on the right side of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and reward systems will... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

business unit. The reward system needs to be based on unit and individual performance, where performance is measured in terms of profitability. And in order for both of those things to happen, there needs to be a change in the corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

not depend on self-selection (Studies 3 and 4) and it is not due to the accrual of undeserved financial rewards (Study 4). Cheating is associated with feelings of self-satisfaction, and the boost in positive affect from cheating persists... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

focus not just on financial rewards but on recognition as well. To that end, Lerner recommends that firms host innovation contests, wherein individuals or teams receive prizes for solving internal problems or creating new products—noting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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