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By: Jay W. Lorsch

Raises questions about basing a reward system on profit and changing MBO indicators through time. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Banking Industry

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09 Feb 2010
News

How to get Americans saving for retirement

2009
Working Paper

When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

By: Philippe Aghion, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt and Isabel Tecu

Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Saving; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods

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09 Oct 2017
News

Saving an American Publishing Icon

David Bradley (MBA 1977) is chairman of Atlantic Media. In this interview, he explains how the rise of the internet actually saved and helped improve the venerable Atlantic magazine. “The first company I started, when I was 26 years old,... View Details

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

the world of finance. He became one of the people brought in after leveraged buyouts to save failing companies. During Wiviott’s time as COO for one of those companies, Quality Trailer Products, he doubled the annual sales to $50 million... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

27 Mar 2016
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One Surprising Way to Get People to Save More

24 Oct 2012
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Want People to Save More? Send a Text

Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to... View Details

26 Mar 2010
News

Savings Program Hits the Jackpot

14 Aug 2024
News

Best Savings Accounts for Kids

October 2021
Article

Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms?

By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie

This article explores some of the critical challenges facing self-regulation and the regulatory environment for digital platforms. We examine several historical examples of firms and industries that attempted self-regulation before the Internet. All dealt with similar... View Details

Keywords: Self-regulation; Government Regulation; Digital Platforms; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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