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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay By: Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak Abstract—We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Reforming LIBOR and Other Financial Market Benchmarks By: Darrell Duffie & Jeremy C. Stein JAN 2015 Duffie and Stein review the history and the role of LIBOR and similar benchmarks used in the modern financial market. The authors argue that the View Details
  • Research Summary

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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

about the tools and tactics for transforming organizations. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908028   PublicationsNonfinancial Performance Measures and Promotion-Based Incentives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2017
  • What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

customers.” The organization even has gone so far as to define its culture as “understanding our vision and values so well that you instinctively know what you need to do when you come to work each day.” That’s all pretty impressive. Given this context, it made sense... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
  • Teaching Interest

Supply Chain Management

By: Kris Johnson Ferreira

The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course builds on aspects of the first-year Technology and Operations Management (RC TOM) course. However, whereas RC TOM focuses primarily on developing and producing products and services, SCM emphasizes managing... View Details

  • 20 Oct 2022
  • Other Presentation

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; GDPR; Interconnection Agreements; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; European Union
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  • 2014
  • Article

The Promise of Prediction Contests

By: Phillip E. Pfeifer, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl
This article examines the prediction contest as a vehicle for aggregating the opinions of a crowd of experts. After proposing a general definition distinguishing prediction contests from other mechanisms for harnessing the wisdom of crowds, we focus on... View Details
Keywords: Prediction; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

China's Rural Leap Forward

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
Collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) played a pivotal role in China's rapid growth during the 1980s and 1990s. Although they originated in the policies and institutions of the Maoist era, TVEs thrived only after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Public Ownership; Development Economics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Macroeconomics; Emerging Markets; China
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  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and other diseases predominantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55884 April 2019 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence By: Blasco,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Before that David Sokol, rumored to be... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 24 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
  • 13 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions

Keywords: by Craig J. Chapman & Thomas J. Steenburgh
  • 08 Feb 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managing Know-How

Keywords: by Deishin Lee & Eric Van den Steen
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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  • March 2023
  • Teaching Note

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah Goldberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 318108. The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns... View Details
Keywords: Jordan; Emerging Market; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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