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- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
however, succeeded in completing their MBAs with honors. They used the phenomenon as an incentive to succeed, setting high standards for performance and worrying about being under-prepared. They were (and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
more questions about the outcome. Alibaba, for example, set out a few years ago to test whether coupons nudged shoppers to buy items they had left in their digital carts. Executives found that these View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
identities, specifically previously enacted ones, constitute potent incentives for inducing efforts or actions. People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates Authors:Jeana H. Frost,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
markets will provide incentives for companies to behave responsibly and companies will exhibit those behaviors because they'll have lower costs if they do. But that will depend on organizations like SASB,... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
that could also make niche content more profitable, according to researchers Feng Zhu and Monic Sun. "Many media scholars think this revenue model is detrimental to society because it provides incentive View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
their work," says Amabile, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. (Kramer, a developmental psychologist, is her husband.) To prepare for the book, Amabile and Kramer collected confidential,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts, or expedite processes View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
the company’s policy for awarding sales incentive compensation on HMM, as well as how they communicated with employees and the firm’s sole shareholder, the Harvard Business School. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. But these same seasoned professionals often... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
election. Facebook has many issues, but making money isn’t one of them. I’m a bit of a skeptic about the ability of the purported changes to drive fundamental impact, given the incentives of their business model. They’ve been trying to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
partners in countries with imperfect IPR. There are also implications for the global production decisions that multinational firms make. Improved IPR allows firms to shift technologically advanced activities abroad and fuels the View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing on its social purpose of caring... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Small businesses and lenders should push President Trump to streamline the current “spaghetti soup” of regulation that is supposed to ensure greater access to capital, transparency, and borrower protections. Small businesses could also benefit from more View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
PublicationsManagement Accounting: Information for Decision Making and Strategy Execution Authors:Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, and S. Mark Young Publication:. Pearson Education, Inc., 2011 Abstract An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
competing incentives in building the metaverse, our view is that the metaverse can still succeed,” they write, “but it might call for a shift in mindset and an openness to learning from seemingly distant... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
would have to explain why not (á la Finland) providing governmental incentives to promote women in the workplace, such as paternity leave and tax cuts for childcare (as in Sweden) doing pretty much nothing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel