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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
traction in India. Considers Metro's experience in Russia and China to put the company's challenges in India in comparative perspective. Pays particular attention to the institutional obstacles for a multinational to tap into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
production and marketing. Rubén Darío Lizarralde, Indupalma's general manager, is conclusive about the fact that social investments are not triggered by altruism but by potential profitability. The notion that "social aid pays... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
first-time CEO, or other member of the C-suite. I’ve seen investors coach leaders on everything from how to lead their teams and handle challenging employees to how to run a great board meeting. I’ve also seen investors support and sometimes even View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
1997, 2002). This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 and 1930. Our findings are threefold. First, we show that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
three options to address this threat: doing nothing, licensing the focal IP ex ante, and paying agents to stay loyal. His optimal choice depends on external parameters-the share of untrustworthy agents in the population, the intensity of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
clashed as decision-making power, pay and incentives, and clout were altered and redistributed. JLL realized that its organizational structure was hindering the firm in achieving key strategic goals, such as rapid scalability of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings to be likely not to fall short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
and Erik Hurst Abstract For over three centuries and throughout the globe, people have enthusiastically bought savings products that incorporate lottery elements. In lieu of paying traditional interest to all investors proportional to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
governance view of taxation," suggests that tax authorities can be meaningful monitors who complement the activities of shareholders concerned with opportunistic insiders. Under the current dual-reporting system, it is impossible for investors to tell what firms... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
of the average American. The second part of that definition is immensely important. Sometimes you hear people saying the US would be more competitive if only wages were lower or we had a cheaper dollar. But if we took a national pay cut... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
and increase earnings management and CEO compensation following these board appointments. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malcofrazIII.pdf Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
accounts for a lot of the effort they put in and also the performance their performance," concludes Lakhani. "The effect is as strong as paying them for their work." This is hardly just an academic study for Lakhani and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
days earlier than would have been possible without a settlement product. Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Hexion/Apollo wanted out. Would the material adverse change (MAC) clause in the merger agreement permit Hexion/Apollo to simply walk away? Even if the MAE clause were not applicable, could Hexion/Apollo walk away by paying the reverse... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
triggered PeopleSoft's poison pill, threatening this maneuver would have given Oracle bargaining power that it could have used to pay a lower price in its negotiated acquisition. The Commentary closes with implications of this analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9 months of data from 50,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
with U.K. and U.S. regulators the firm agreed to pay $450 million in fines. Within a few days of the settlement, Barclays' CEO, Robert Diamond, had resigned under pressure from British regulators. Diamond blamed a small number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals in two cities... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to the accounting giant paying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace