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- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
beginnings and the incentives they foster. As he put it, “the hunger to rise is most strong in those who fight through the odds. That warm meal may lull someone better off to pause and rest a while ” Asrarqureshi attributed the success of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
something new to spur on their employees. According to Beer, managers in many companies look to pay-for-performance for good reasons. They expect that it will attract and motivate people. They expect performance standards will outweigh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
local convenience stores, whose owners received incentives per order. This increased job efficiency by two or three times, as delivery moved from door-to-door to the pick-up station. Meanwhile, the work to pick and pack items also... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
or not on my watch anyhow." (Jamal Barghouti). A dominant theme concerned the bias in the market toward addressing short-term challenges, caused in large part by what Robin Chacko described as the "impatient" investor. As Sarang Kulkarni put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Feedback in Tournament and Individual Performance Compensation Plans Authors:Lynn Hannan, Ranjani Krishnan, and Andrew Newman Publication: The Accounting Review 83, no. 4 (July 2008) Abstract This study investigates the effects of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
rewarding high-performing teachers, and retraining and/or firing badly performing teachers," the paper states. In the United States, India, and China, managerial use of incentives are much more common... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
meaningfully to strategy development. Making It Safe To Be Critical Chief among the responsibilities of a corporate board member is to develop and share an honest assessment of the company's performance, including the performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
environmental performance of several common biopolymers. However, for some biopolymers the relative performance depends on the functional unit. Management Accounting in India... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
unanticipated postincentive study visit approximately three months later. Results: The odds of suppression were higher in the incentive choice arm than in the passive control arm at the postincentive visit (adjusted odds ratio 3.93, 95%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
sometimes motivates dysfunctional behavior.” Hall's research also points to some overlooked advantages of stock relative to options. “Although options create leveraged incentives, they also create more fragile View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
proxy for incentive conflict) impact the use of a subset of available performance measures. Consistent with a signaling model of the allocation of contingent control rights, we find that contracts involve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
2. How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross