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- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
universities and colleges were seeking to take advantage of federal funding, there was almost no quality control. That created an opening for the Ford Foundation in the 1950s and 1960s to lay down a significant critique about the View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
across the United States. Host Controls The job performances of casino hosts are subject to various degrees of monitoring, even within the same MGM-Mirage organization. The enterprise comprises a number of individual properties that were... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
which is hard to explain by the traditional leverage tradeoff with financial distress that emphasizes downside risk. The results are robust to a variety of specification choices and control variables. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
such as eBay, YouTube, and Facebook to gather information and share opinions on how they spend their money, an entirely new marketing philosophy is called for, one in which the marketer no longer controls the message. In "Digital... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
taxpayers receive a deterrence message. Comparing their subsequent tax payments to a control group allows estimating what types of taxpayers are more likely to respond to an increase in perceived audit probability. This information can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This study examines... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
that there is more to running an enterprise, small or large, than strategy. The revolution in quality control and manufacturing techniques that has taken place in the last fifteen years was data-driven and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide NAS, especially those related to information services. This is consistent with better audit quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
competition is really the right medicine. "Competition in the ratings industry has been increasing, and there have been calls for yet more competition. Whether competition is likely to reduce quality or improve it has been... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
recognized Robert E. Downing's advice that we may need to define work before asking the question. For knowledge workers, "it is very difficult to determine when the workers are actually working Maybe we shouldn't be asking about hours (quantity) but instead... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
health care is about life, quality of life, and death. Start trying to manage, control and put a dollar figure on that and you will instantly run into walls at all levels of society." On the other hand,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive care units... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
competitors. Are there limits to boundaryless behavior? If carried too far, can it result in loss of control over the quality of goods and services delivered by the supply chain? Can reliance on others for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
traditional and ubiquitous command and control hierarchies of modern society inhibit, frustrate, and deny our natural instincts.” He suggests stakeholder forums as one means of supporting the thinking of rebel talent. Zufi, at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Working PapersGrowth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace