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into people’s underlying motivations and promote value-creating behavior Understand how an organization’s incentive systems shape the mix of individuals who are attracted to, promoted within, and retained by... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR reform the most, namely those firms that made extensive use of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

I think one thing we have learned is to be careful when we try to generalize about the importance of institutions. Since the work of Nobel Prize winning economic historian Douglass North, the importance of institutions in providing the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the effective management of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

  Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

dampening the incentive to adopt managerial practices; and c) nonpecuniary returns to potentially inefficient but power-preserving practices. The findings presented in the paper provide support for a) and c), while we do not find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

Professor Rakesh Khurana, "The Pay Problem," tackles the knotty issue of compensation. A: When it comes to compensation, we can't see the forest for the trees. We've created a system where there's a lot of focus on the details: Should you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses, but executives are often unsure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

moment of great opportunity. Business has been an engine of prosperity in countries around the globe, lifting millions out of poverty and bringing vital services and products to markets and people in ways that have enhanced their lives. Capitalism remains a View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

funds offer a level of professional investment management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

years building P&G's Chinese operation rather than the core detergent business. IBM's Sam Palmisano was a champion of software and open systems at a time when Big Blue was essentially a closed-system, hardware-oriented company. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

Mawilmada helped secure a $1.25 billion investment for the line from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with two other 25-kilometer corridors prepped for public-private partnership funding. Buses are another piece of the puzzle, with the current View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

Abstract—Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, the creative act has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the View Details
  • 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 have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel