Incentive Programs - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2014
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Pandemic Sweetens Lure of Smaller Cities’ Relocation Incentives

01 Jun 2008
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NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Sep 2014
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Subscribing to loyalty cards and site offers

03 May 2012
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Chesapeake Board Had `Blind Spots,' Kaplan Says

04 Jun 2013
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Corporate sustainability is not sustainable

02 Nov 2016
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When You Feel Pressured to Do the Wrong Thing at Work

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

business of delivering health care than making a diagnosis and prescribing medication,” she says. Today, as cofounder and CEO of Systole, a healthtech startup, Lee is developing a personalized, physician-driven digital exercise program... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist." Thomas asserts that there needs to be an alignment of the interests of the organization and the interests of the individuals: "It is crucial that the View Details

Keywords: Management

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

we build, more than hazards. Yet vulnerable development remains legal, profitable, and most consumers don’t know the difference. Many policies indirectly encourage it. Look how the National Flood Insurance Program spurred floodplain... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2010
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Touting Green Energy’s Potential

reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey bill). “Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and technologists... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational performance? In a 1997 working... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

01 Sep 2005
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Trouble in Mouse Land

for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to discuss View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

08 Apr 2011
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Management Matters In Health Care, Too

opportunities abound. That helps to explain why 372 current students have expressed an interest in the health-care industry. That interest is nurtured by the Health Care Initiative, a multidisciplinary program dedicated to innovative... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books

four-year research program that spanned 25 industries, identifying long-term winners and what they do differently, Capon talked to marketing mavens from across the global economy and presents their insights in five broad groups: picking... View Details

Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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