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  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

"greed and corruption helped create the crisis, ... simple human frailty played a vital role." They suggest providing incentives to make financial products easier, not more difficult, to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

carbon-neutral product. Sharing-OAurora Rotes, MBA 2009Sharing-O, the sharing platform for those things that are still too good to go, filling the gap between new and pre-owned. Let’s be sustainable today, not in 10 years. The most planet-friendly View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Furthermore, now that the Obama Administration has offered "any type of assistance" to the rebels, there is even less incentive for them to damage the oilfields. Although production is down because... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

estimated at over $2,200/year by Edmunds.com, with gross margins on such repairs typically at 50 percent." Hence, testing facilities have ample incentive to exhibit leniency, meaning, they manipulate the testing equipment or find... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • January 2012
  • Article

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose
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Amabile, Teresa, and Steven J. Kramer. "How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012): 124–131.
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

However, app developers’ incentives to innovate are not completely suppressed; rather, they shift innovation to unaffected and new apps. Given many apps already offering similar features, Google’s entry may reduce such social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Books

how artists work will have an advantage over those who don’t.” Artful Making is the product of an unlikely intellectual collaboration. Austin, a former technology implementation manager at Ford, is an assistant professor at HBS who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 19 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of limited access led to fanatical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation (type of job, firm, market, or financial View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

the even more pernicious software that tracks every page you view, every product you buy, every Web site you look at. It's also important to realize the externality that results from cleaning up a computer. Every time you clean up your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

can account for secular changes in how payouts were made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices and management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

A Market-Based Prescription

they price their products depend on consumer demand, value, and traditional market forces. Our present system suppresses these forces and innovation. Doctors can only provide services that fit static billing and payment codes. These codes... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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 established View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

involvement of nonbank institutions and, in particular, the rise of mutual fund participation in the leveraged loan market after the financial crisis. Based on the wider syndication, (narrower) skills, and diverse incentives of nonbank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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