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- May 2012
- Column
Fehler auch als eine Chance nutzen
Aus Fehlern werde man klug, sagt der Volksmund. Es sind allerdings nicht die Fehler, die man selber macht, aus denen am meisten gelernt werden kann. View Details
- April 2012
- Column
Korruption beeinträchtigt die Ertragskraft
Dank Korruption erzielen Firmen zwar mehr Umsatz. Erwiesen ist allerdings auch, dass die Rentabilität leidet. Die Korruptionsbekämpfung sollte daher Chefsache sein. View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
- March 2012
- Column
Die Angst des Herstellers vor dem Zulieferer
Dank den Aufträgen eines Produzenten entwickelt sich ein Zulieferer technologisch
weiter. Wird er dadurch zum Konkurrenten? Die Frucht vieler Firmen ist über trieben. View Details
- February 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
The New York Times Paywall
On March 28, 2011, The New York Times website became a restricted site where most of the content was protected behind a "paywall." Users who exceeded the limit of 20 free articles per month were required to pay for either a digital or print subscription. The newspaper... View Details
- February 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis Yao, Britta Kelley and Lizzie Gomez
In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in February 2006 the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) announced an initiative to examine its self-regulatory program on children's advertising. The existing program was a voluntary cross-industry program... View Details
- January 2012
- Case
Calvin Klein and Warnaco Group: Negotiating a Trademark License
By: Susan Fournier, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, William W. Fisher III and Robert Mnookin
- 2012
- Working Paper
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
- 2011
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Immersion Experience Program Note: Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio, Thales S. Teixeira, Stephanie Galloway, Cassie Bordeau and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Companies visited: Allied Advanced Technologies, BrasilAgro, Clearsale, Dafiti.com.br, Globo, Groupon Brazil, Insper, JGP Investimentos, LIGHT, Maracana Stadium, Petrobras S.A., Vale S.A. View Details
Keywords: Brazil
- June 2011
- Article
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey - Managing in the Shadow of Health Care Reform
Per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which President Obama signed in 2010, states would be required to create state-wide health insurance marketplaces - the Health Benefit Exchanges (HBEs) - in which individuals and small employers could choose... View Details
- August 2010
- Article
Antitrust—What Role for Strategic Management Expertise?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao
- March 2010 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
The Economist
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Bharat N. Anand and Lizzie Gomez
In 2009 the Economist continued to experience impressive growth and operating margins while many of its peers reeled from both a cyclical downturn and structural threats to print publishing. The case describes the history, organization, and business model of the... View Details
- February 2010
- Article
Friend or Foe? Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel and Matthew White
- December 2009
- Article
Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Alibaba's Taobao (A)
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie M. Wulf
This case examines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Supplement
Alibaba's Taobao (B)
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie M. Wulf
- July 2008
- Article
Fairness in Extended Dictator-Game Experiments
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Reiner Eichenberger
We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers from allocators to recipients substantially decline, partly because many allocators now keep the entire... View Details