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How CEOs Strong-Arm Their Compensation Consultants to Get What They Want

Idea posted: November 2014

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Does hiring compensation consultants result in higher pay for CEOs? Until recently, academic studies exploring this question have yielded no evidence that CEOs use compensation consultants to justify higher pay.…

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Why High-Status Companies that Attract the Best Fail to Keep Them

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    McGill University   

The best students from the best universities and graduate schools will be attracted to the most desirable companies to work for in their industries. At first glance, it would seem…

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Can Employees Be Motivated by More than Money and Benefits?

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

Motivation can be divided into two dimensions: outcome-focused and process-focused. With outcome-focused motivation, people are driven by the desire of an achievement. They want to finish the task so that…

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How Reference Points Motivate Us

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

The use of reference points — for example, a monthly sales quota of 20 sales — is at the heart of reference-dependent behavioural economic theories, the most influential being “prospect…

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Investment Banking: Technology and the Decline of Trust

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce    International Monetary Fund    Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law   

Investment banking was once regulated mainly by ‘reputational incentives’: bankers were motivated to act in the client’s best interests by concern for the bank’s good name. It was a system…

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The Positive Effect of Negative Incentives

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    Yale University   

The question of whether positive or negative incentives work better has long been a matter of debate in society. From biblical times to the very recent past, children were thought…

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Reasons to Be Cheerful: Positivity Linked to Profitability

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: INSEAD    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   

It is important to draw a distinction between over-confidence and over-optimism in business. The former can be seen as a pejorative term, linked to arrogance and hubris, and the latter…

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When Financial Incentives Backfire

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris   

Economic theory tells us that human capital, i.e. employee ability, is positively linked to productivity and that high performers should be rewarded. Strong financial incentives for performance, however, can carry…

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Smoke But No Fire: How Employees View CEO Pay

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Kenexa High Performance Institute    NUS Business School    University of Central Florida    University of Minnesota    University of St. Thomas   

“Excessive, shameful, soaring…” these are just some of the words used by the media when discussing executive compensation. Over the past two decades in particular, CEO compensation has increased exponentially,…

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