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  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of introducing a flat tax? Is a flat tax a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving By: Sanders, Michael, Sarah Smith, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Many organizations, including corporations and governments, wish to encourage charitable giving, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and economic value. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

also be viewed online at Baker Library. As the manufacturing arm of AT&T, Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant, located outside Chicago in Cicero, Illinois, was known for the practice of “scientific management” (as espoused by... View Details
Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

  PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

“cloak” their most valuable trades. This takes the form, for instance, of a manager who sells her entire position of Microsoft on March 30, and then repurchases to re-establish the same position on April 1. This manager will economically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Spirit at Work

Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

heterogeneous preferences for work versus leisure. Evidence from six other countries reveals similar findings in economies at different stages of development. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Economic Transition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2010
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

investors-problems that may otherwise persist for many years." The questions this raises are: Just what solutions address Shiller's concerns? How can they be achieved? Can businesses, for example, be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 14 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

importance of a culture that encourages progress, outlining how “sustainability-oriented innovation involves making intentional changes to an organization's philosophy and values.” But what kind of philosophy and values lead to a corporate culture that allows View Details
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

procedure performed or patient seen, without explicit rewards for the quality of the services rendered. This model translates internally into an incentive system that prioritizes patient volume over patient... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

aisles. That shows the students that you're in charge. "Managers who manage for performance are more likely to be blindsided by events they should have foreseen and in many cases fixed." While Thomas did not automatically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have important implications View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel