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- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
salaries? Researchers present evidence that workers dislike inequality in equity compensation more than salary compensation because of the perceived scarcity of equity. Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
important ones. But, some limited variants can also be useful. "Point" guarantees such as penalty clauses which involve a discount when delivery is late are a simple form of performance-based pricing. View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
severe penalties The legal cannabis industry is hamstrung by its federal illegitimate status. Barred from interstate commerce, the US cannabis industry has become an agglomeration of 37 fragmented, isolated markets. Each state that has... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
feels.” “Everything that’s worthwhile is incredibly complicated.” “Everything that’s worthwhile is incredibly complicated.” Tisch’s experience at the NYPD, meanwhile, informed her approach to illegal dumping, a problem that disproportionately affects low-income... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
we try and find other reasons to explain it,” Gallani says. Which rewards motivate workers? In a new working paper written with doctoral student Wei Cai, Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties in Subsequent... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
from when measuring accuracy. Scoring rules can nudge forecasters in one direction by giving a penalty for overestimating or underestimating. Whatever rule is accepted should align with overall goals. In the hurricane example, forecasters... View Details
- Research Summary
Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
her study, it “remains a puzzle why financial fraud persists despite the severity of the penalties for and negative consequences of being caught.” Her study set out to probe the extent to which FBI enforcement deters white-collar crime.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
there already is a market for kidney sales, but it is illegal and dangerous. A lot of abuses happen in the illegal kidney markets. For example, in China they get organs from executed prisoners. They defend it. They say, "You Americans have a death View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
by 1.1 percent in towns where the local newspaper had closed up shop. (The magnitude of increase was greatest in communities that lost their one and only paper.) The nature of the violations also became more severe in the wake of the closures, evidenced by the fact... View Details
- Web
Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About
The unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, violates the Copyright Act and may subject you to civil and criminal liabilities. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil... View Details
- Web
Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
the sale, delivery, or furnishing of alcohol to persons under the age of 21. Community members are reminded that there are heavy penalties, including imprisonment, for possession or distribution of illicit drugs. There are also serious View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
wage rates and inflation, and therefore low unemployment and inflation. One way to think about the model is that nirvana is the point at which the economic benefits of lower unemployment no longer exceed the economic penalties of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
meeting surges in capacity and to explain how they derived that estimate. Transparency as a solution often fails because of a lack of enforcement or overly complex regulations. For example, when President Biden issued an executive order that warned of stiffer View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
percentage of cost savings. Or, a contractor might be paid more for finishing a job early. There are many variations to performance-based pricing including penalty clauses. But, the idea is always the same. Base your price on the value... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- Web
2.5 Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA
significant sanction if a pattern develops. A warning becomes part of the student’s official record but is not considered a formal disciplinary action. Warnings are not noted on a student’s transcript or in letters of recommendation. View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
thousands of facilities of publicly listed firms, Heese identified the towns where the local newspaper presses permanently came to a halt. Heese found that after a newspaper shuts down, violations at publicly listed companies in the paper’s circulation area increased... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Gianpiero Petriglieri , INSEAD Authenticity in Midair Laura Morgan Roberts , Antioch University Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities Panel: Performance & Appearance Tina Opie , Babson College Hair Penalties and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
and the reason is that people drop out and don’t aspire to be great leaders. The penalty to them seems too great, the reasons for saying no seem too heavy. My message to you is, ‘Don’t quit.’ You’re expected to be a leader, not just in... View Details