Incentives For CSR - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

improve how workers are treated or betters the environment. But new research from Harvard Business School and London Business School demonstrates the first real evidence that mandatory CSR reporting works, and could give policymakers and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

Fast Answer

Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency

by US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau. You may search this site for more surveys on the topic. Database of State Incentives for Renewables &... View Details

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

urgency—with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems, that energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

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

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

offered proper incentives for standardizing and sharing the information they collect. Even the industry's brightest minds and hardest workers have yet to definitively determine what those View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

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 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

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

malapropism as saying, "take it." More than a funny Yogi-ism, the words suggest a fundamental truth for companies wanting not only to survive times of disruption, change, and surprise, but lead through it, Kanter suggests.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care at a lower price. RS: I agree, but these incentives for change may not be... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John

Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details

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01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

prevent high-cost incidents that could occur later,” says Kaplan. Incentives are misplaced In one study, for example, Kaplan and Haas looked at the cost of joint-replacement surgery at 30 large orthopedic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
Supplement

Jieliang Phone Home! (B)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details

Keywords: Managing People; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Production; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Surveys; Decisions; Manufacturing Industry; China