Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The situation improved recently with the accounting recognition of a stock option expense, which clarified to directors that options are not costless, and with the general lengthening of the options' vesting period (incenting long-term orientation).

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change. Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives.

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Incentives Definition Pharmaceuticals System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea?

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Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. Blockbuster capital raises will always occur in unusual situations (e.g., 3 Defenses of Large ICOs. The Downside to Large ICOs.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

This is achieved through a clever combination of economic incentives and cryptography, and ensures that at any point in time, digital records reflect the true “consensus” among the key stakeholders involved.

Advertising 8

Advertising Technology Consensus Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. The problem is that everyone can have a different view of the meaning of getting and staying healthy. One subgroup's innovation is another subgroup's loss of control. Health establishments fight against germs and also against germs of ideas.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

And if there were a consensus strategy to help an employee population sustain weight loss, we’d know about it by now instead of having hundreds of wellness vendors pitching their own approaches. Encourage checkups only for people likely to benefit from them. The distinction should be self-evident.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Guidelines Morale Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

In their recent book, The Progress Principle , Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer build on the same argument and clearly demonstrate how even the smallest, most mundane steps forward — for example, achieving clear consensus in a meeting — can motivate and inspire workers.

Goal 14

Goal Metrics Deming Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

People may need to share and collaborate more; functions may need to set up different or complementary business processes; managers and executives may need to make sure existing incentives don’t undermine analytic-enabled opportunities for growth and efficiencies.

CIO 8

CIO Information Technology Consensus Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Does being a physician inform leadership through a shared understanding about the motivations and incentives of other clinicians? There seems to be a widening consensus that training physicians for leadership matters.

Management 14

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

What emerged was a consensus that t he most successful leaders in the future will be those who - like Nelson - can cut their distance to the front line through three key traits: the ability to be authentic, empathy with the customer and front line, and true self-awareness.

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Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable. The alternative problem is that collaboration sometimes goes too far. The result is slow and poor execution.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There are strong incentives to hide or misrepresent risk. The organization may fail slowly and expensively, steered by people enveloped in a cocoon of consensus that mutes awareness of dangers and opportunities. People with unpopular ideas about risk may be eliminated or marginalized, depriving the organization of essential diversity.

Risk Management 12

Risk Management Proposal Committee Exit Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The HERO report is a self-described “consensus” document, representing “countless hours of research and discussions by more than 60 members of both organizations and many outside experts.” PMPM, although that excludes incentives, consulting fees, internal staff costs, extra medical expenses, and several other items.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A typical Chinese boss, Lu strongly believed in the value of harmony and consensus. Are the conflicts' causes related to corporate processes, structure, and incentives rather than the personalities of team members? I didn't say there would be no way, what I meant." Lei was about to explain, but Lu cut him off with a gesture.

Workshop 14

Workshop Stress Emotional Intelligence Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you ponder that question, we should note that there was one area of consensus. What supporting changes in information systems, incentives and organizational structure are necessary? How do you overcome pockets of resistance? How do you build the right sort of culture and values?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. Future potential matters (much) more than past performance.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Franchising Six Sigma Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Companies with rigorous annual-planning processes or ones with very deliberate, consensus-based decision mechanisms will struggle to truly embrace the lean start-up approach because it will run counter to many of these systems.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Then there’s the myth that you can structure incentives to eliminate conflict. Another common trap: Assuming that a conflict either needs to be resolved by consensus (which can take a very long time!) Jeff: We talked about three “myths” in the article: the myth that collaboration happens automatically if you take a team approach.

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Project Consensus Learning-by-Doing Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Consider that when there are 500 of us in some setting all pursuing our own agendas, it's very difficult to get a consensus on anything. Oligopoly permits mutual understanding to develop, and then, because that understanding supports premium profits, the players have an incentive to maintain the oligopoly. except sometimes).

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Nothing is free, but one of the big temptations is for governments to step into the ubiquitous resource void with capital for either the ventures themselves, or financial incentives for capital providers, or direct funding of space for entrepreneurs. In Boston it has become the Seaport. In Istanbul, it is Beyoglu.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Now consider a host of other conflicts: from interdepartmental turf wars, to poorly designed agreements between hospital systems and insurance providers, to the difficulties encountered in aligning hospital goals and incentives with those of contracted physician groups. What role might they play in the plan’s implementation?

Strategy 8

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

If there’s consensus on anything in Washington these days, it’s on the need for some reform of the patent system. All told, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, a leading trade association, patent abuse is costing the U.S. economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week. So what’s the holdup?

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. Here's the bottom line for managers: don't count on WTO rules to protect your interests.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A 2015 Institute of Medicine report, “Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress,” demonstrates broad consensus that measuring the quality of people’s health and the care they receive is critical to improving performance of the health care system and patients’ health outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As evidenced by CCIP's research, webinars seem to work less well when they deal with topics around which there is no consensus, or that require enormous customization to be relevant to all audience members. Provide incentives for participants to demonstrate their mastery. Focus on training, not analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

If you can make the downsides of his conflict-avoidant behavior evident, he may be incented to change. But Fred was also indecisive and often looked to the team to make key decisions by consensus. Step into his shoes and try to understand what he really cares about. Point to direct evidence, such as a team member’s disengagement. “He

Case Study 10

Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Despite the overwhelming number of laboratory experiments carried out to evaluate this argument — known as the overjustification effect — there is still no consensus about the degree to which higher pay may demotivate. However, two articles deserve particular consideration.

Motivation 9

Motivation Review Comparison Sample 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. Consensus Protocols and Access Permissions in Public vs. Private Blockchains. by solving the cryptographic puzzle). Security Starts with Network Architecture.

Consensus 8

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

My sense is that a consensus emerged from the hearings that Apple was not doing anything illegal. Claims of tax evasion are much more significant as they cross the line, and it appears that a consensus emerged that this was not the case with Apple. is alone in using a worldwide system, our corporations have an incentive to leave.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. CEOs routinely go to the microphones to apologize or make excuses for missing the analysts' consensus earnings estimates — even if their real results are substantially up.

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CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. Every year, hundreds of millions of people across the globe move from rural to urban environments in search of opportunity.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But what this conclusion neglects entirely is the incentive value of profit. This expert consensus is incompatible with our subjects’ view of profit as almost necessarily coming at the expense of others. Thus, the more profitable a firm is, the more they have seemingly gained at the expense of consumers.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2016

And after all that research and with all the different clashing views, the general consensus to this finding is that this generation of young people is unlike anything we’ve seen before. For years experts have been trying to understand millennials, to find out what makes them tick, and what drives them to want to do great work. Team Dynamics.

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Development Webinar Leadership Motivation 180

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”. Transactional Leadership Philosophy This is where individual goal setting comes in and there are incentives for team members to achieve them. It influences how you move through the world and how you encourage others to do the same.

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Development Leadership Consensus Leadership Styles 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Offering financial incentives (e.g. In fact, the majority of venture capital investments are in California, New York, Massachusetts, and Israel, with no direct financial incentives other than fully-taxable profits. You know that you have a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem when there are more and more startups.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

And finally, the blockchain spreadsheet has a mechanism—referred to as a consensus algorithm—that determines what is placed in the spreadsheet by mutual agreement among its users. This provides a high level of confidence that the data hasn’t been tampered with. Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

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Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8