Incentives For CSR - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon EmissionsResearch has shown that reducing carbon emissions and exhibiting good environmental performance are important for corporations.... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

surprising that many retailers have adopted loyalty programs as a convenient mechanism of meaningful differentiation. Ultimately, loyalty programs should offer incentives for shoppers to reduce their store... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

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

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

ideas." With a level in the middle, R&D teams will both forced to look at current ideas and able to take them in new directions. Finally, says Ahuja, it's essential to put a knowledge management system in place that provides View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

29 Sep 2008
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Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

incentives at each stage of the process. We need to ensure that mortgages are appropriate for the resources of borrowers, and that mortgage brokers have skin in the game when they sell loans. We need to... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

20 Mar 2013
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How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

20 Jan 2017
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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

02 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

ensure that the casinos' best customers return to play another day. “It's not absolute freedom—it's freedom within a framework" —Francisco de Asís Martinez-Jerez And it turns out that casino hosts are ideal subjects to gain insight into an ongoing question debated... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare View Details

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

advantages of scale for innovation, companies need the right combination of strategy, systems, and culture. Based on more than three decades of the Pisano's research, teaching, and experience, Creative Construction offers a set of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

how CEOs from major companies around the globe—Becton Dickinson, IKEA, Tata Group—made a positive difference for their employees, their customers, their community, and society while not neglecting profits. Beer cowrote the book with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

At the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina was one of the great economic powers in the world—capitalizing on exports of beef and wheat to be a leader in the first wave of globalization. Neighboring Chile was poised for tremendous... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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