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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Board Scorecard, and the Executive Scorecard. These Scorecards clarify goals, priorities, processes, and ownership, and define the linkages between desired financial results and the actions needed to achieve them. Context Professor Palepu... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
(Grossman/Helpman, 1991). Exports, then, might not be beneficial per se, but only if they occur in the "right" activities. The empirical analyses tried to provide insights into the factual linkages between trade and growth. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
is fundamentally different. Is It Possible To Evaluate Differentiated Services? The question remains: how to evaluate the effectiveness of service units that offer differentiating outputs? Dave Norton and I argue that the cause-and-effect View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
services. “The process of creating those specialized inputs creates new knowledge, which eventually leads to more innovation,” Mills says. Supply chains have a large number of linkages to many different downstream industries. “They have... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
linkages he saw and analyzed. “Al Chandler had one of the best darn smiles this side of the Continental Divide." —Nancy F. Koehn Second, he wrote about the past but this work was always anchored by his own eye on the present. Al... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in free-trade zones to build linkages with the local economy. Companies must... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the linkage between information technology and the shape of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
performance based on historical data that should help users to avoid a common mistake of overestimating the sustainability of strong (or poor) current performance. Finally, the model shows the direct linkage between variables that are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
for sales. The newest and potentially most powerful linkage between the BSC and ABC is articulated in a book chapter that illustrates how a time-driven ABC model bridges the gap between the Balanced Scorecard's strategy focus and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically bounded, inter-firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
work design and compensation and to understand the differences between compensation and motivation. The case frames the role of the general manager in setting up work structures and compensation systems in a very traditional and explicit setting, one where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
as official sponsors and unofficial free-riders attach themselves to the Olympic logo, to particular sports, national teams, or individual athletes. Global brands, in particular, see the Olympics and World Cup soccer as the two most important international sporting... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
U.S. manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglomeration levels to the degree to which industry pairs share goods, labor, or ideas. To reduce reverse causality, where co-location drives input-output linkages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
seamless linkage and direct, cost-effective access to equities. As a result, Gasser added, the specialist on the trading floor of the NYSE might be an endangered species. And be assured, he concluded, that in the not too distant future... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
how weak the linkages were between MNCs and NGOs on the one hand and governmental and intergovernmental organizations on the other. MNCs demonstrably reduce poverty by providing jobs and nourishing local business. NGOs want to reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health of the corporate brain and the organizational culture of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
linkages with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
vertical production and financial linkages with parents exhibited greater resilience. Finally, in contrast to the crisis period, the effect of foreign ownership and linkages on establishment performance was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne