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- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage that suddenly presented a... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's achievements. For example, a person who is accountable for head count or specific View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
honest criticism will hurt the group's collegiality or, worse, result in reprisal—namely, getting kicked off the board and losing a gig that often pays six figures annually, plus stock options or shares.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
students to compare the prices of put and call options with various exercise prices and maturity dates on two equities (JPMorgan Chase and Facebook) that had identical closing stock prices on January 14,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupees from his tenants, but that money just became 20 percent more expensive in the global currency market. So what is she to do? The options aren't appealing: Default on the loan or change the business... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Many of the women specified a desire to work for organizations whose goals were compatible with their own values and to have more control over the calendar and the clock when they return to the workplace. Since Charting Your Course is designed to help alumnae assess... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
4). Further, although givers believe that recipients do not appreciate receiving money as much as receiving a solicited gift, recipients feel the opposite about these two gift options (Study 5). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
R&D organizations, a clear relationship emerges: more long-term incentives (e.g., stock options and restricted stock) are associated with more heavily cited patents. These incentives also appear to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
risks that globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
able to benefit from the experience of earlier competitors, while those that were first to be funded would pay the price. In the case of Mohr Davidow, for example, “it’s pretty clear Navigenics is going to be the one that benefits, perhaps at the View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
they have much more rarely considered the false negatives. This is because the damage created by false positives is much easier to recognize, and to quantify. It can be both expensive and embarrassing when a project goes through the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
described moments when they had to summon their resolve to fight back against, for example, short-term moves that would lift the company’s stock price at the expense or its overall health or that would cause... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the high $60 million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced to regroup and reconsider their options for galvanizing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
current "Great Recession"—PACCAR has maintained a price premium and outperformed the S&P 500 by several orders of magnitude. One practice among others that sustains this performance: PACCAR provides a 26-page white paper on its Web site detailing View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a bond held in a taxable account... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
limited? Do you seek new avenues for expansion? Is the timing opportune to consider such a quest? Fenno includes a broad range of diversification options supported by numerous practical examples of companies of all sizes that have... View Details