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- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
In his words, "As long as shareholder value maximization is the sole focus of Boards in a capitalistic context, objectivity in judgment is at risk: putting shareholders above all stakeholders is not a sustainable proposition, especially in the Knowledge View Details
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by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52312 Equality and Equity in Compensation By: Bao, Jiayi, and Andy Wu Abstract—Equity compensation is widely used for incentivizing skilled employees, particularly in new technology businesses. Traditional View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming) Abstract In the aftermath of World...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Consequently, there is a negative effect of leader power on team performance. Three studies find consistent support for this argument. The implications for theory and practice are discussed. South Sudan: The Birth of an View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy...
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by Michael Blanding
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
benefit of increasing equity risk declines. We show that there is an interior optimum and that it is reached at lower leverage for firms with high asset risk. Empirically, the risk anomaly tradeoff theory and the traditional tradeoff...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice...
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Sean Silverthorne
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
known, are to some extent, popularisers of discipline-based theories. I think the contribution is very important because it came at the right time when there was liberalization of the global economy and of investments, and the opening of...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
theory the classical logic of benefit‐based taxation in which an individual's benefit from the activities of the state is tied to his or her income‐earning ability. First‐best optimal policy is characterized analytically as depending on a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams of young Albert Einstein at...
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- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
well as emotional and business factors) every organization has to find its own optimal solution neuroscience in the last 20 years has proven that current business theory which basically has been developed from past slave-like &...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
at the current financial crisis in hopes of solving it? I draw a parallel between the natural world and the financial world in the concluding part of the book and sketch out a rough evolutionary theory of finance. And the bottom line is...
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- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
of countries has its own fascination. That's why we prefer to think about a cross section of countries and understand what is similar and different. We focus on many different emerging markets to develop a theory that spans all emerging...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies...
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Sean Silverthorne