Incentives For CSR - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and setting them on a healthier course. In every case, I saw—and agreed... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

people back to Bentonville headquarters for recognition; and executive merchandising contests that create incentives for executives to spend more time in the stores. All of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

personal, employee-centric terms . There are no purposeful organizations—only purposeful people." Bern Lefson commented, "The 'why' is important but how that is defined varies by employee ." As usual, many more questions were raised than answered by... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and garments are eliminated at the end... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror: Critical Questions View Details

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

platform mode. So what does this have to do with the degree to which Uber and other companies control their employees? The reality is most of these companies fall into a poorly defined gray area, says Hagiu, where creating the optimal View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

foreign presence to gather the evidence necessary for a successful prosecution in U.S. federal court. Firms with reputational assets have a strong positive incentive to continue to live up to those... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

dean for religious life at Stanford University and a former senior lecturer at HBS, describe the hurdles as well as a practical framework to overcome them in their new book, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

demographic, social, and other trends aside? Does anyone in the organization have the responsibility to mobilize people to act on such trends (as opposed to identifying them)? What are the short-term incentives to do so? Can an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning concept that provides benefits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

from 0 to 100 for these two extremes. Some inequality may be necessary to incentives for work and investment. But some equality is necessary if markets are to be created that... View Details