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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
but tempered improvement in occupational health and safety. This tradeoff is more pronounced in factories with unions and high-powered productivity incentives, suggesting internal governance structures shape how suppliers respond to... View Details
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Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
“They wanted both, but by structuring the standard task contract in a certain way, they are less likely to observe employee-initiated innovation.” Aligning incentives with expectations So, can companies motivate employees to focus on key... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
of work and responsibilities incentives, advancement and promotions." Must all of these steps be achieved before latitude is expanded to deliver results, perhaps through self-management? The major obstacle to self-management, as one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
conserving scarce time and attention. Highlights The Benefits of Diagnostic Control Systems Putting the Three Wheels Back Together - Three Wheels of Profit Planning Schematic A Multidimensional Approach to Measurement Harnessing Human View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
to their upcoming $5.5 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia which will employ 8,100 people.[71] Panasonic has also elected to construct a $4 billion electric vehicle battery assembly plant in Kansas due to IRA incentives, and Wichita... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
entrepreneurs. Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. 5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
performance" losing its allure? What do you think? To Read More: Mihir Desai, The Incentive Bubble, Harvard Business Review, March, 2012. Mihir Desai, Compensation Practices and Incentives, Harvard Magazine, September-October 2012.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
We have asked dozens of managers, individually and in groups, to name their most important levers for motivating employees. They tend to favor the things that most management books tout: recognition, tangible View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog
deal structuring, property types, negotiation and sourcing techniques. Stakeholder Motivations – Students will learn to understand the various stakeholders’ economic incentives, legal constraints, moral and... View Details
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Benjamin Peterson
thinks about how to maintain it. In the end, the Haitian government built the most kilometers of high-quality roads, because it was incented to maintain them. The experience got me interested in incentives, in what View Details
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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Employers Suppliers Policymakers Employers Employers Employers have the motivation and the clout to drive value improvement in the health care system, and reinforce the shift to value-based competition. Employers can exert a strong... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
to which the trend is a product of nature (declining employee motivation, changing aspirations, shorter-term planning, etc.) or nurture (such things as leadership, hiring policies, organization, incentives, and the job environment they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay... View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
recent research at Harvard Business School. In "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community," the authors—HBS professor Marco... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing Corporation, explains how years of... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Can you design processes to reflect the promises implicit in hard-wiring?; (4) Do you have the people, incentives, and technology to deliver on the promise?; (5) Are you big enough?; (6) Do you have the financial capability to protect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them. And try not to get too depressed in the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate your staff to extraordinary... View Details