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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
make decisions that are optimal for happiness. Employees might think money or goods will make them happier, when research shows it is usually experiences or time. By reconsidering the incentives they offer, employers can nudge employees... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
involved? I’ve studied what happens when you introduce financial incentives into the volunteering environment. From a more traditional economics viewpoint, if I pay you to do something, you’re more likely to do it. But if your desire to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational performance? In a 1997 working... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
cetera. We provide discounts if you use resilient materials, building materials. So we try to provide incentives to folks to make the right decisions. Those are more direct services. I would say that the indirect piece of this is if we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, and the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
investments that could raise American productivity and living standards. “A handful of changes would transform the corporate tax system from an obstacle to an asset,” says Desai. He advises creating better incentives for global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to discuss View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
data, “to see what he can tell us about what we’ve found out.” Over time at Hawthorne, Mayo and his protégé, HBS professor Fritz J. Roethlisberger, discovered that physical working conditions and financial incentives were less important... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
with 170,000 employees that’s critical to our national defense,” Tobias noted that description fits both the CEO of Boeing ($4 million annual salary, plus incentives compensation) and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps ($169,860... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
routine,” he told the “What’s Your Workout?” column in the Wall Street Journal Online (November 13, 2006). When not traveling, Bailey alternates between regular swims and at-home workouts with weights and a rowing machine (he rowed at HBS). Bailey has extra View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
The Tour of Hope is a bicycle relay from San Diego to Washington, D.C., a 3,300-mile journey intended to raise awareness about cancer research, prevention, and detection. One of the 25 participants in the October ride was cancer-survivor Meg Berté (MBA 2000), who rode... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
for HBS alumni. The two parties are bitter rivals, but unlike a business duopoly, they “cooperate in setting the rules and structuring the game of competition,” Porter says. Ultimately, Gehl adds, “We get gridlock and increasing polarization, because there’s no View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed “good-bye” payments if things do not work out. These are one of the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, the company would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
Ina Foalea leads a brainstorming session in Morris Hall during this year’s Startup Lockdown. It is 6:30 p.m. on the Wednesday of Spring Break. But Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) is in work mode as she stretches out on the couch in the first-floor lounge of Morris Hall, biting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey bill). “Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and technologists... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books about the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Unlike some consultancies, Prysm is industry-agnostic. Rather than working in siloed practice areas like transportation or financial services, Barrera and Hurder use their understanding of fundamental economic principles—and their technical expertise in disciplines... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
quality of care. Traditionally, doctors and hospitals have been paid separate fees for their services, an approach widely criticized for rewarding overuse of diagnostic tests and procedures while providing no incentives to integrate care.... View Details