incentivize
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The effort is meant to incentivize Goldman’s units to steer business to each other and has boosted revenue across the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“As U.S. diesel stocks near storage limits, downward pressure on diesel prices would intensify, compressing U.S. refining margins, and likely incentivize U.S. refiners to reduce output,” the team wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
It also stacks an additional $15,000 credit for each new hire, to incentivize expanding journalist headcounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Now that would maybe incentivize them to spend a little bit more on post-production and maybe hire an extra person or so. But generally that’s not going to change economic behavior.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The agents were not specifically told to hack others on OpenAI’s behalf, but the agents had been incentivized to hack other systems during in-house development, and they were being informed by erratic LLMs.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
To combat high dropout rates, the Foundation devised a buddy plan that incentivized children to stay in school by paying pairs of students $500 each if they graduated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
“While there is still much work to do, FilmLA’s quarterly report is proof that incentives are working: local incentivized productions are on the rise,” said L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
A workforce that is literally bought into the company might be incentivized to stay longer and work harder because they stand to benefit financially from the business’s success if the stock price rises.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
This is part of a broader initiative to make sure the firm is incentivizing the behavior that it says matters most going forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
But it isn’t clear that six-month reporting would “move the needle significantly in terms of incentivizing managers to think more long term,” according to Srini Krishnamurthy, an associate professor of finance at N.C.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
The wearables integrate with other Apple devices, like the iPhone, incentivizing purchases and giving Apple one of the most sticky ecosystems in tech.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
By doing these things you are incentivizing him to behave more badly in the future.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
The author argues that such markets often outperform traditional polling by incentivizing accuracy through real monetary consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026