Motivation and Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

information technology, and new developments in our MBA Program have motivated us to take a close look at our plans for the campus over the next decade. These plans have focused on several needs that we see... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

profit motive is needed. One argument for ending monopolies and opening the market for private services is that this might lead to more rapid technology introduction and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

It made a difference in the world in such a short time frame, which speaks to how dynamic this space is and how motivated the students are to bring about change. What will the picture look like in another... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

think he tracks it more than he alludes to. That’s a good question. I mean, at the end of the day it’s his life, right? I’m scared for him, and fear is a really good motivator View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19 response. In a recent blog post, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative connected with several first and second year fellows to hear about their work. “Being able to see the impact my work is creating on people on a day-to-day... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

incentives for the people involved. What’s amazing is that anybody actually bought them. That’s because they’re created with a one-dimensional idea of what the economy and the world are going to do. If you... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her... View Details

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran the numbers on the cost savings... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

I went to business school without having taken any business courses previously. So, for me, the two courses that had the most impact were Large-Scale Investment with Ben Esty, and Entrepreneurial Finance with Bill Sahlman. I think every... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

are dramatically different and quite exciting. Working in civil society, you are surrounded by people who are deeply passionate about the calls that they serve. And issues around View Details

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

young, and I started asking questions about his background and what he did, and he started asking me about how does he run a better operation, with this giant thing, because he... View Details

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

the Student Association (SA) and began one of the most active tenures of any SA president in recent memory. "I was motivated by the people at HBS and wanted to make a positive... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

Steve Belkin suggest that the strongest common threads in their class may be the need for independence and the desire to parlay professional success into something beneficial for the community. "When I started out, undoubtedly, financial... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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