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  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

incentives based on valuation ratios, split announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • 18 Aug 2009
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    First Look: August 18

    other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    choose between long- or short-term memberships. When firms employ long-term membership, they have incentives to prevent their old customers from being poached by competitors, and to price-discriminate with their membership fee and unit... View Details
    • 09 Apr 2013
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    First Look: April 9

      Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

    payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a short-term savings account from which withdrawals are possible at any time. We find that employees who opted into the program kept... View Details
    • 02 Mar 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

    system, the kind that used to be referred to by detractors as "socialized medicine." Worse yet, the current system leaves more than 40 million Americans without health insurance. Because many are not employed or have very low incomes, View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    specialization on both the asset and liability sides of intermediary balance sheets is important for understanding their role in capital markets. See Emil’s other research here , Adi’s other research here , and Jonathan’s other research here . More Info Business Credit... View Details
    • 27 Apr 2010
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    First Look: April 27

    make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking the MBA, and MBA View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 09 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

    Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
    Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology
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    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    health care agenda. Health care invests billions of dollars in quality measurement programs and complex cost accounting systems yet these systems currently fail to collect outcomes that matter to patients and the costs to acheive them.... View Details
    • 26 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 26, 2008

    about the tools and tactics for transforming organizations. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908028   PublicationsNonfinancial Performance Measures and Promotion-Based Incentives... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
    • Case

    City of Charlotte (A)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details
    Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details
    • January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    Development and Promotion at North Atlantic Hospital

    By: Boris Groysberg, Lisa Leffert, Kerry Herman and Libby Williams
    Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology (DA) at North Atlantic Hospital (NAH), faces several significant challenges. Staff satisfaction surveys confirmed her assessment that department faculty morale was low, the tenure and promotion system was... View Details
    Keywords: Training; Employees; Retention; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
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    • 03 May 2011
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    First Look: May 3

    MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

    2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the paper notes. Government policy has played a leading role. The Biden Administration has continued former President Trump’s tariff policies aimed at Chinese goods, while also offering View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Book

    More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

    verify ownership—and potentially exchange it—NFTs enable markets to emerge. NFTs have enabled trade in digital images and media files (such as those Ape images we mentioned), as well as new business models around everything from rewards View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
    • 28 Jul 2015
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    First Look: July 28, 2015

    credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. We investigate the economic incentives to commit review fraud on the popular review... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel