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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
influence on the family's portfolio decisions. Consistent with this, we find that family trustees significantly overweight their 401(k) client firm's stock. Trustee overweighting is more pronounced when the conflict of interest of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to wield it without unhappy... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
public and private regulatory activities. Read the paper: http://www.gcbpp.org/files/EPV/EPV_Short_RobustEnforcement_92012.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
describes the troubling experiences of a young man, Jerry, in his first real job. Jerry sells insurance to the poor on behalf of a large, faceless organization. The insurance he's selling is bogus and he knows it. His impoverished clients... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market responsiveness. In short, people... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
The partnerships worked because three essential components were in place: mutual expectations, mutual influence, and trust. When the task forces were commissioned, Childs and Gerstner set expectations and made sure that roles and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
the optimal response to an ad-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations. We also find that when there is an ad-sponsored entrant, the incumbent is more likely to prefer to compete through the subscription-based or the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
activity. We examine the responses of U.S.-based MNEs and domestic industrial production to a set of IPR reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. Following reform, MNEs expand the scale of their activities. MNEs that make extensive use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on platform profits. A monopoly platform's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
volatility. Using our model we quantify how capital injections impact the risk of financial institutions and estimate firm-specific precautionary capital needs. In addition, the longstanding observation that volatility is more responsive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Peter Barge, CEO of the newly created Corporate Solutions Group of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), is executing a restructuring of the U.S. corporate real estate services division that will enable the company to offer its clients integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
select whomever she wants to assume leadership responsibilities as an office head, say, or a practice area leader. It's part of the CEO's job. Getting her colleague to accept the position is a different matter, however. An outstanding... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these trades. We show that these brokers’ best clients tend to predate on the liquidating funds: at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
that agents experience reduced demand for service failures due to stockouts, but not for service failures due to network downtime, suggesting that consumers differentially ascribe responsibility for service failure based on the type of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
ZMET in addition to digital imaging, for corporate clients as well as MBA and Executive Education students. He's also involved in Harvard's interdisciplinary initiative Mind/Brain/Behavior, and studies neuroimaging techniques as applied... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge; and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
into the attitudes, skills, and subject matter expertise necessary to be successful in this role. Insights into how Everson does this job are provided by both PwC and client personnel. As is often the case, Everson is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
infrastructure ITG had constructed to support clients with customized software tools and technical support had grown well beyond sustainable levels. With his management team, Gasser had developed a two-part View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace