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  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

required thresholds (e.g. a percentage of captured CO2 to be used in a production process) for key industries, India could create incentives for high-emitting companies to invest in carbon capture and for... View Details

    The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training

    This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model takes into account many of the key elements that constitute a realistic... View Details
    • August 2006
    • Article

    Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
    We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility
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    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

    Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details
    • Research Summary

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
    • February 2020
    • Article

    Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard

    By: Julian Zlatev, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin and Dale T. Miller
    The motivation to feel moral powerfully guides people’s prosocial behavior. We propose that people’s efforts to preserve their moral self-regard conform to a moral threshold model. This model predicts that people are primarily concerned with whether their... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Perception
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    • 02 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services
    • 01 Jun 2015
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

    integrated reporting, explains the forces that give momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. It posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies... View Details
    • 10 Jan 2022
    • News

    The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.

    • Web

    Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Course Catalog

    struggle for Indian independence, apartheid-era South Africa, and conflicts in the Middle East, are examined. The cases, set across centuries, continents and industries, explore how different contexts View Details
    • Web

    Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Employers Suppliers Policymakers Employers Employers Employers have the motivation and the clout to drive value improvement in the health care system, and reinforce the shift... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

    Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
    • March 2023
    • Supplement

    Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

    By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
    In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; India
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    • 2013
    • Article

    Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978–1980

    By: Kevin Koh, Shiva Rajgopal and Suraj Srinivasan
    We provide evidence for the long-standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978 to 1980. Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Knowledge Dissemination; Quality; Corporate Disclosure; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 18 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

    order to do so, they need the help of foreign "investors" that are familiar with the frontier. Of course, these foreign partners will not do all the work. Domestic companies need to provide certain inputs and exert effort.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • Web

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    incentives to use outcome measures. Overcoming those barriers involves implementing the standardized ICHOM measure set and developing the IT systems to collect and manage the... View Details
    • 20 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

    steps individuals and organizations can take to make decisions that are truly in line with their own ethical views? A: Organizations can monitor how they are creating institutions, structures, and View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2018
    • Article

    Creative Sparks or Paralysis Traps? The Effects of Contradictions on Creative Processing and Creative Products

    By: Goran Calic and Sébastien Hélie
    Paradoxes are an unavoidable part of work life. The unusualness of attempting to simultaneously satisfy contradictory imperatives can result in creative outcomes that simultaneously satisfy both imperatives by inducing search for, and selection of, novel and useful... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Business or Company Management; Performance
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    • 01 Sep 2015
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

    of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013) (HarperBusiness) The authors show how to use cutting-edge psychology to unlock people’s innate desire to innovate, experiment, View Details