Q: Thanks to a yearlong sales effort, my agency just won a large incentive group contract. The corporation will host its top salespeople at a luxury resort, and we will be in charge of arranging ...

WHY IT RATES: Throughout its 50-plus years in business, Central Holidays has capitalized on strategies designed to help travel advisors boost their sales, and the group business is no exception to ...

Group incentive travel likely will be one of the last industry segments to recover from the economic downturn that has plagued the meetings industry for nearly three years, illustrated by a new ...

Obese employees shed more pounds and reaped bigger cash rewards when they were offered a group incentive vs an individual one in a short, randomized controlled trial. Weight loss at 6 months, the ...

WHY IT RATES: The "Intrepid Bucks" agent incentive has no end date and rewards agents with $500 in "Intrepid Bucks" for every $10,000 of Intrepid Group products sold. -Mia Taylor, TravelPulse Senior ...

Teacher incentive pay programs with a hybrid structure involving both individual and group incentives can have good results. Multiple and understandable performance metrics, combined with regular ...

New research co-authored by a UC Riverside business professor provides some sound advice for managers of retail outlets that limit their product selection to a particular brand: Managers should factor ...

A study by Professor Stephan Meier, Assistant Professor, Management at Columbia Business School, and co-author Andreas Fuster, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University Department of Economics, which was ...

All businesses need employees who will work hard to increase the company's profitability. While some workers are naturally loyal and dedicated, incentives can increase motivation to improve ...

Anandi Mani is an associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick, currently visiting at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. Updated June 2, 2016, 10:49 AM Policies to tackle ...