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  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

Case 512-036 In November 2011, just days before the holiday shopping rush, the senior leadership team of The Home Depot, Inc. (Home Depot), the world's largest home improvement chain, discussed how best to navigate the new interconnected world of retail. Retailers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

trade-off decisions he must make in managing through the current period. He is preparing for a meeting with his board of trustees where he plans to discuss the current situation and the key decisions the organization needs to make.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? By: Sadun, Raffaella Abstract—Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

drive HNA's continued growth. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309029 Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke Harvard Business School Case 409-057 As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

most sales compensation plans (about 70%, according to surveys) incentivize volume independent of the type of sale or cost-to-serve different customers. This is ineffective deal management and, to avoid this, some firms establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

as a “golden leash” incentive structure—a significant amount of incentive payment from the investor if the company performed well. Supporters and critics had weighed in on the pros and cons of such incentive schemes for corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

they're looking out the window at the Great America Amusement Park, which you can see from their cubicles on the fifth floor of the Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara. And Andy looks at Gordon and says, "If the board should kick us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

interests of the company's founders and existing venture investors. Finally, while Bollinger was expected to lead the company for the next two to three years, Pervasis' board was planning to launch a search for a permanent CEO in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

those voices and is going off in his own way. And I think Facebook grew too fast. A little bit like Frankenstein's monster grew out of control I think he feels trapped, but I don't think he's really listening. It's been said by board... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative total shareholder return (rTSR) is increasingly used to incentivize and evaluate managers. Although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

cases, films are produced independently and distributed by studios under revenue sharing agreements, which give studios 30% to 40% of the revenue stream. Under either regime, the studio determines and pays for the allocation of scarce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

variation in the use of in-house rather than independent advertising agencies by U.S. advertisers. While the vast majority of large advertisers employ outside agencies, it comes as a surprise to find that when advertisers of all sizes are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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