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- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
organizations are certainly economic instruments, but they also have an immense impact on human development and the well-being of society. Sustaining research attention on both the ethical and economic responsibilities of business, and on the tensions between them,...
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by Manda Salls
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
have focused on overconfidence and other background characteristics. Although this individually and psychologically oriented research has pointed to some interesting correlations, we argue that unfortunate consequences too easily result...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
short-termism is associated with various proxies for earnings management, suggesting that our proxy partially captures opportunistic behavior. We also show that firms focusing more on the short-term have a more short-term oriented...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
short-term oriented investor base. Moreover, we find that short-term oriented firms have higher stock price volatility, and that this effect is mitigated for firms with more long-term investors. We also find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
comparatively linear and sequential approach adopted by medical device development teams in developed countries like the United States. Further, we suggest that such testing is feasible in India because of the prevailing regulatory flexibility, the cognitive View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
we could usefully draw on the experience of the United Kingdom with its Financial Services Authority (FSA), a body that replaced all of the previous institutionally oriented regulators. The FSA regulates all firms that perform a financial...
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- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: (1) executive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
and form teams ("circles"). The guidelines for the effort are spelled out in a 30-page "Constitution" used as the basis for orienting associates to the new form of organizing work. Self-management is not a new idea....
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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Value Assessment, and sustainability data from the Vigeo Sustainable Country Ratings. These were matched with the company's official language and strong/weak orientation toward the future, and several moderating variables. Marquis and his...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
to write a book based on the colloquium. The colloquium was video- and audio-taped, and there is already an interest by some people who were unable to attend in seeing some of the sessions. Some of the sessions may be edited and used, for example, to help new faculty...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
less future-oriented behavior (Chen, 2013). Yet, research has not established how this mechanism may affect the future-oriented activities of corporations. We theorize that companies with strong-FTR languages as their official/working language would have less of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
dynamics that are less investment-oriented than a traditional deal and more oriented toward indirect tools to make money." The Payoff Sometimes the strategies software companies employ are so complex that it isn't immediately evident...
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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
climate, innovativeness and market orientation measures are all below average in Hong Kong," concluded Deshpandé and Farley. Thailand, an industrializing nation with a market-oriented economy, "reflects a strong Buddhist...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
presentation by suggesting that talking about business and the public sphere was like "dancing about architecture." Business often has no incentive to grapple with public sector problems, and those businesses that choose to embrace a 'stakeholder' View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
highest. The course orientation fits with popular conceptions of the world of small business, offering visions of highly energized individuals passionate about doing their own thing developing new ideas and creating most of the jobs in an...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the service orientation that was necessary to support the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
for-profit science diffuses through the academy. Using adjusted proportional hazards models to analyze case-cohort data, the authors find evidence that the orientation toward commercial science of individuals' colleagues and coauthors, as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
possible with modern smartphones loaded with technology like GPS, compasses, accelerometers, and orientation sensors. I would call it a tour-de-force in terms of using all the capabilities embedded in modern smartphones and showing what’s...
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- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
leading virtually and globally." Other suggestions were for more investigation of topics such as "ethical leadership and inclusive growth" (Praveen Zala), the impact of more globally oriented and younger leaders (Jack...
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Re: James L. Heskett