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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
have a business model that will get us to profitability. We make money when users buy offsets. So currently the primary service we provide that customers want to pay for is if they want to offset their footprint, the average subscriber... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
owned and operated by the same company, have the same IT systems, and have the same incentives for employees. Much of my research is focused on identifying the sources of this variation." She has found that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
number—and that’s just counting the formalized giving. When you think about prosocial behavior more broadly—for instance, when you do favors for neighbors or family and friends—it’s an even larger component of our society. Why do we... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
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Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the company's decision to go paperless... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
make decisions that are optimal for happiness. Employees might think money or goods will make them happier, when research shows it is usually experiences or time. By reconsidering the incentives they offer,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
that policymakers concerned with global public health must pay “dramatically greater” attention to vaccine-related issues. He pointed out that 3 million children worldwide die each year from diseases for which vaccines already exist. Even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report
and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor
Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity, Corporate Venture Capital, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
economically and socially. It could be a critical tool for pulling a community together and provide an incentive for it to rebuild itself. It also avoided the appearance of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a... View Details