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  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

restoring common sense to compensation schemes and holding officers and directors responsible for their actions. All of which implies greater transparency in information, education for non-officer directors, and stiffer penalties for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Mar 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

freedom of individual choice should always trump government intervention but, perhaps more so than in other developed countries, this sentiment enjoys widespread support in America. The government should not be able to mandate that I buy health insurance or impose a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

to be breadwinners supports spending long hours at the office. Women, in contrast, face career penalties such as loss of promotion for using corporate accommodations that help them balance different roles. Companies hold on to the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

those numbers,' don't be shocked if people forget the first message. You need to be clear about penalties even as you are clear about goal setting. You want a healthy setting between those." View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

harsher penalties for students proven to have committed sexual assault. In that way, the media is serving the purpose of holding colleges accountable by deterring future scandals. “These stories raise awareness and discussion at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

that firms can fully capitalize on these opportunities. This reduction of coordination and transport costs is continuing to create more and more opportunities for rationalization and, consequently, bigger penalties for those that don't do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

of either program). Fearing estimates that the model he and his coauthors developed—called the Ration-by-Schedule Exponential Penalty model—could reduce flight delays by 4 percent or more on some of the worst travel days, resulting in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Office as well as other defense analysts have observed that the acquisition cost overruns of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s are not aberrations; they are the result of many government and industry participants reacting in perfect accord with the distorted rewards and... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

series models within the context of a single-stage stochastic inventory system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series requires tracking forecast errors (interpolations) and using these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

find evidence of lessened gender penalties for female-led ventures that are presented using a social impact frame. In a second study, we experimentally validate this effect and show that it is mediated by the effect of social impact... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

we need universal health-care insurance. This lack of penalty might explain why overt dodging appears so prevalent in politics (and in life). “Listening is much more taxing than we might think.” The second interesting finding was that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

group. Trading outcomes dictate permit prices, and at the end of trading, each firm calculates profits and pays over pollution penalties as needed. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911053-PDF-ENG Carbon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By: Cai, Wei, and Susanna Gallani Abstract—This study explores the effects of subjective... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

“second HQ” in India to exemplify our core proposition. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54978 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores By: Coffman, Katherine B.,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55541 The Impact of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

stiffer penalties for those found to create economic chaos and worse? Perhaps we would be willing to sacrifice some network speed in order to increase security. How can we reduce the threat that networks represent? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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