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  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

however, most boards have focused on CEO succession, giving short shrift to systematic leadership development. After all, there was little risk of a calamity occurring if the board didn't monitor the... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

consider future implications for their companies...and then decide what action to take." Muller suggests, alternatively, that "traded companies be required—by regulating authorities—to include in their...financial report an...evaluation [of] business View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Motivate Me, Please

your manager's paycheck can motivate you to work harder. Research Papers Research Paper Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

and Collateralized Lending Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Promising for many types of innovation, as he explains in this Q&A. Key concepts include: Practices in the open source software community offer a model for encouraging large-scale scientific problem solving. Open up your problem to other people in a View Details
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors.  Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms that are characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms that are characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and clarity have View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

assets choose higher leverage. More uniquely, the risk anomaly theory helps to explain why leverage is inversely related to systematic risk, holding constant total risk; why leverage is inversely related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, U.K., Japan, U.S., and Chile), the paper describes the differences among countries and then applies a model of the factors determining the size of corporate headquarters (Young, Collis,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

biting the bullet, and saying we will give these people an opportunity to get rich if they succeed at what it is they are choosing to do. We'll also load them up with the risk that an outside entrepreneur would have." Finding And... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

Working Papers Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison Authors: Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao Abstract Purpose—This paper provides a systematic comparison of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

basis of systematic performance. Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

811-106 Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

assignments; Requiring that a different degree of directors’ wealth be at risk through investments in company shares to ensure they have interests totally aligned with those of shareholders; Completely separating the role of CEO and board... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

and organizations, leaving few left for newcomers and growth. In this context, some networks seek to sell the addresses they previously received-sales that can usefully transfer resources to the networks that most need them, but with certain View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

out of efficiency, cost, and risk mitigation issues. The elements are interdependent, yet not all stakeholders face the same image and branding exposure. Supply chains also translate to attenuated control; that is, your company can exert... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace