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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

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Despite this growth, the researchers don’t believe the investment is sufficient to meet the Paris commitments, and argue that it would need to have doubled between 2010 and 2020 to have made a meaningful impact. Instead, they found that international cooperation, through initiatives such as Mission Innovation, played a greater role. “We

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Transparency Is Key To Removing The Gender Pay Gap

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While both of these numbers have fallen since 2010, they have largely been replaced by more informal discouragement, which has risen over the same timeframe. What’s more, violation of the law by employers is typically met with a small fine, so there is little real incentive for employers to comply.

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Research: Firms Give More Stock Options When They’re Committing Fraud

Harvard Business Review

For example, look at Sherron Watkins, formerly of Enron, and Cynthia Cooper, formerly of WorldCom. While protection and rewards may encourage more employees to come forward, firms may be able to counter these incentives by making it beneficial for employees to keep quiet.

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How Shameless Copycatting Can Save Europe

Harvard Business Review

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. Unemployed individuals were given stronger incentives to take up jobs, and overall labor force participation rates increased. How did Germany get back on track?

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Companies Want to Disclose Employee Health Data to Shareholders, and It’s a Bad Idea

Harvard Business Review

Several Harvard-affiliated economists argued in a 2010 Health Affairs article that wellness programs produce a 3.27-to-1 Participation in these screenings is low today despite incentives averaging $693. How much more can you pay (or fine) your employees to cooperate? to-1 return on investment.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

To me, a key distinction for managers to focus on is the one between coordination and cooperation. To achieve this loftier goal, you need the second half of collaboration, which is cooperation. Most companies focus on coordination among silos and pay insufficient attention to encouraging employees to cooperate.

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.