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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
lower level. Finally, executives can use accounting and control systems to adjust the span of influence. For example, the span will be wider for managers who are forced to bear the burden of indirect cost allocations generated by other... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
and in contrast, such indirect costs appear relatively fixed in the face of sales declines in this industry. We discuss potential sources of these cost-structure patterns and their implications for cost management efforts as asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
characterization of indirect dominance, we investigate von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets. We show that a singleton is von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable if and only if the matching is stable (Theorem 1). We also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
set goals around creating value faster than costs (his preferred goal)." Deepak Alse reminded us that "the world of business is an unbounded system! The 'Corporation' is in effect an acceptance of the idea that profit seeking should happen through View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
emphasize the value of being prudent with money. Additional analysis supports our predicted indirect effect of religiosity on spending through frugality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54362 2018 The New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
take the next-to-last slot. In Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction 2 my coauthors and I develop this envy-free condition. In Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment 3 my coauthor and I demonstrate that when a search engine raises... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
employee learns her performance falls in the bottom of her group) leads to improvements in employees' performance, while direct positive feedback does not significantly impact performance. Furthermore, indirect negative feedback (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of that kind of “information leakage” in a different venue: As doctoral students at Stanford, they had the same advisor. “Each of us knew what the others were working on before we ever talked to each other about our projects,” he says. While that View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
are also becoming more concentrated geographically—for example, Chinese inventors in San Francisco—and appear to play an important role for shifts in the spatial distributions of U.S. innovation. Q: Is there a direct or indirect impact on... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
of both direct and indirect subsidies in industries throughout the world, and careful attention must be paid to the advantages that might accrue to competitors in very subtle ways. Q: To what extent do you think managers can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
and strategy, including direct and indirect investments, fund manager selection, total returns, sourcing and due diligence of direct investments, and other aspects. The case explores a specific investment decision in depth. In May 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
imprints: the founder's own, direct work experience, as well as the indirect influence of parental work experiences and professional education. Our findings further suggest that the effects of direct imprinting are strongest from the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
distribute cash to shareholders. We also provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
for offsetting equity issuances by firms. In particular, we explain the importance of accounting for indirect equity issuances, which constitute the majority of total equity issuances in public firms. In addition, S&P 500 firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
are harder to replace than those with lower coupling. The measures of coupling that best explain differences in IT agility include all indirect dependencies between software applications (i.e., they include coupling and dependency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
industries), and that there is a tight relationship between the direct impact of a shock and the magnitudes of the downstream and the upstream indirect effects. We then investigate the short-run propagation of four different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
hand. You cannot resolve design issues—such as whether to adopt a direct or an indirect channel or, if indirect, how many levels are appropriate—without a sense of how distribution policies and practices are translated. Similarly, you... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and output throughout the period but no significant impact on employment during the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne