Identifying links between incentives and ethical lapses
How and why do incentives elicit unethical behavior?
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For climate change mitigation, bipartisan politics can work
In an increasingly polarized nation, cooperation across party lines is key to sustained climate mitigation in the United States, according to a new CIRES study. To sustain climate progress over decades, bipartisan cooperation ...
Political science
Apr 14, 2022
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Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet
For some time, the Earth's natural resources have been depleted faster than they can be replaced. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline to reduce heat-trapping emissions by half to avoid climate ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2021
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Pay-for-performance incentives may put innovation at risk
Managers looking to create social conditions that lead to open, diversified and large networks—which are known to spur innovation—should avoid implementing pay-for-performance incentives that rest on short-term and quantitative ...
Economics & Business
Nov 10, 2021
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The future of work is hybrid: An expert's recommendations for success
COVID-19 has changed the way we work.
Economics & Business
Oct 25, 2021
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Study finds male, female responses to performance pay similar across contexts, programs
Past studies have raised the possibility that performance pay—programs that give employees incentives to be productive by offering rewards for achieving performance objectives—may widen the gender earnings gap because ...
Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2021
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US subsidies boost the expected profits and development of new oil and gas fields
Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (Somerville and Seattle, U.S.) and Earth Track, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, U.S.) examined 16 subsidies and environmental regulatory exemptions, providing one of the first estimates ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2021
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Reducing plastic waste will require fundamental change in culture
Plastic waste is considered one of the biggest environmental problems of our time. IASS researchers surveyed consumers in Germany about their use of plastic packaging. Their research reveals that fundamental changes in infrastructures ...
Environment
Jul 1, 2021
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Swiss snub synthetic pesticide ban plan
Switzerland on Sunday rejected proposals that would have made it the first European country to ban synthetic pesticides following a bitterly fought campaign.
Agriculture
Jun 13, 2021
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Deforestation is driven by global markets
The world is at a crossroads, as humanity tries to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss, while still securing a supply of food for everyone. A recent study in Nature Communications shows that global demands ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2021
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