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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

view of such differences, to figure out the ones that matter the most in your industry, and to look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

if an employer provides some special training/skill to an employee that increases his market value substantially ." Naseem Khan suggested that " a retention bonus may be doled out in lieu of base... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

the right question poorly," the authors note. "In this research we find that, at least in part, people value style over substance because the style blinds us to the lack of substance," says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

amount of each resource available and more on how people both think about and choose to spend those resources. Overall, focusing on time leads to greater happiness than focusing on money. Moreover, people enjoy greater happiness from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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    Building Sustainable Cities

    By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

    • 02 Mar 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

    SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 25 Jan 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategic Alliances

    value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE research forum at the School provided Austin with the opportunity to delve more deeply into this development. Identifying a core group... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
    • 25 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 25

    Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July – August 2011
    • Article

    What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim
    A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys
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    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Alumni

    can play a more strategic role and contribute more value as a member of a company’s senior leadership team. Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give Login to view your giving history View Your... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    mimic the three-stage CDM process. To model airline disruption responses, an integer optimization model was developed to balance operational and passenger considerations in determining which flights to cancel, swap, or delay. The value... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    Owner/President Management

    months over three calendar years, the Owner/President Management (OPM) program is a transformative learning experience that will boost your leadership skills—and the value of your enterprise. Key Benefits... View Details
    • 08 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 8

    the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning by Supplying

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Joanne Oxley
    • 14 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14, 2015

    Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model, and we critique the assumption that the business of HRM is solely to improve returns to owners and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Oct 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

    generative appropriability are in conflict with one another. "Very often, the things that help you make the most money out of an invention are in conflict with the things that help you create most View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
    • 02 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 2

    strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne