Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

One place to start might be a fresh look at the incentive compensation structure in the pharmaceutical industry. ” The opioid epidemic is an extreme example of how development and marketing incentives drove sales, but ultimately raised the risk of potential addiction, overdose and death. And what can we learn from it?

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Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

One example comes from Aetna, which provides free yoga and meditation classes, on-site fitness centers, nutritious food options, and financial incentives for healthy living to its 50,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. billion in net income during the five years prior to its bankruptcy in 2001, while only $114 million in net cash was generated (or a mere 3% of reported income).

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Under Clark and a program he dubbed “the revolution in personnel distribution,” the system was changed to a job bidding approach with incentive compensation provided to the jobs and locations that were in the least demand. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boston-based SkillWorks , founded in 2001, has placed more than half of the 500 displaced workers it has trained in new jobs. That will take leadership and innovation from various constituencies — business (individual firms, but especially industry associations), education, and labor — and targeted federal funding and incentives.

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Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The staff reasoned that rewarding stellar individual performances would provide the right incentive to excel. But by 2001, the once-dominant Buckeyes had slipped into mediocrity. The Buckeyes won the national championship that year, and football teams around the country have copied the tradition of rewarding individual excellence.

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Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But in 2001, the nation’s policymakers were able to boost entrepreneurship, according to a recent paper. The narrow one for policymakers is that welfare programs can in fact distort entrepreneurial incentives, but dismembering those programs isn’t the only or best option. There is a narrow lesson here, and a broad one.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." As a result, engineers and developers had a greater incentive to compete with each other than they did to collaborate with each other.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

We had jobless recoveries coming out of the last recessions in 2001 and 1992, but this one put the budget squeeze on recruiting and has gone on for a very long time. There are many signs that the US economy is improving, but the most important one, the unemployment rate, remains stubbornly rooted in recession territory.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Repeated surveys can, over time, reveal changes in networks or in patterns of collaboration — making it possible to assess whether interventions such as reorganization or targeted efforts to improve collaboration (like offsite events, new software/communications tools, or incentive programs) actually have their desired impact.

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Nathan earns about $130 an hour as a psychotherapist, and he initially made $34 an hour driving for Lyft, with incentive pay, though this has dropped over the four months he’s been driving to $15-$20 an hour. Yet he told me, “If I didn’t like going out to do it, I’d probably stop.” ” he asked.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives. agricultural exports to Cuba in late 2001 under presidential discretion, which exceeded $5 billion between 2002 and 2014. It turns incentives about acquiring skills upside down.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The classic formulation of this idea comes from Michael Spence’s PhD thesis , published in 1973, which helped win him a Nobel prize, in 2001. Signaling can produce perverse incentives that can cause those without the hidden quality to try to fake it.

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Advertising Price Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Revelations of systematic fraud, deception, and corruption across the organization showed the devastating consequences of unethical behavior in organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? I believe the cyber threat right now has much the same character.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. The Drawbacks: A Complex Incentive Structure and the Quality Question. my money built X number of schools).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We had done a restructuring in 2001 with a significant number of layoffs. One of the follow-on decisions was what actions we should take, if any, to compensate for the loss of approximately $2.5 billion in revenues. Should we restructure the organization to lower costs and at least partially offset the loss of revenue?

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

In 2001, I was the State Department Correspondent for the Washington Times. Additionally, travels agents have contracts to support vendor partners that remove the incentive to find the best price or address comfort needs. What brought you to write this book?

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives. This is because there is little incentive to conduct R&D that benefits multiple divisions. This is not a surprise.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. One of JLL’s main clients, Bank of America [BofA], told JLL in 2001 that it no longer wanted to deal with each of JLL’s business units independently. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001. Indeed, it’s easy to see how a Google has as much or more incentive than Apple to “own” tomorrow’s DX as the future of personal mobility and sustainability evolves. Traditional retailers smirked and cried “niche!”

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

In late 2001 ImClone awaited approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its much-heralded new cancer treatment, but unexpectedly the FDA decided to reject the company’s application. Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems.

Ethics 8

Ethics Training Biotechnology Morale 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. Operations were highly decentralized: Each hotel retained its own identity, managed its own business with full profit-and-loss responsibility, ran its own incentive programs, and handled its relationships with key intermediaries.

Case Study 10

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. Executives never stayed long. Enron routinely fired 10% of its top salaried people each year, fostering a lean-and-hungry spirit among producers of business.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

I met Tony in 2001 when he was sent to me with severe muscle weakness. In 2001 Questcor bought the rights to Acthar Gel, which is used to treat infantile spasms, a rare form of childhood epilepsy. In addition, the FDA should be permitted to sunset ODA incentives for a particular drug based on future performance.

Price 15

Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. Not China or Iran, concerned that its citizens might benefit from rules that would allow them to cover their footprints or that companies would have a much stronger incentive to protect users'' privacy.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Hence the Chinese have incentives to maintain the Venezuelan economy afloat. Chinese investments also reflect the more cordial bilateral relations between both countries and the fact that Venezuela still owes China 19 billion U.S. dollars in loans that are being repaid with oil. When Should Multinationals Resume Investments in Venezuela?

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8