Firm Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

ventures aimed to grow the company from its core HMO business into the consumer health organization market, Phanstiel threw out a system in which managers' variable compensation was largely based on overall company performance and tied... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.)... View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

professionals, Saslow shows how to: identify a unique and compelling purpose for the family office, which engages the next generation; manage some of the interpersonal challenges inherent when working with family members; create high View Details

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

of having abusive managers overpaying themselves. Yet I argue that because the scheme of executive compensation was voted by shareholders and was transparent (unlike some of the packages that managers get today in the same firms in Brazil... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

and the de facto regulator became the credit rating agencies," said Retsinas, arguing that regulation became essentially outsourced and privatized. The credit rating agencies weren't able to perform their function whether due to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

begin with, the top team must first agree on a "statement of strategic and organizational direction" — an outline of what the company must do as a whole in order to gain competitive advantage. They then appoint an employee task force (ETF) of their eight best... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

20 Jul 2017
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

lunching with a student mentee, strategizing with the director of a pre-K education program, or working on crisis management with city officials in the aftermath of a violent neighborhood incident. “Don’t ask me about my typical day,” he says. “I never have those.”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. Educational and philanthropic endowments, for example, with institutional time horizons that necessarily span centuries, invest their funds with monthly View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

and social return can be aligned to drive positive change. The mentality that Professor Rebecca Henderson shared was something new and fresh and quite exciting for me. After graduation, I chose to join a firm that shares a similar belief.... View Details

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug says. “When the meal was over,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

business world. At that time, predictive analytics had been applied to the continuing maintenance of everything from CAT scan machines produced by GE to elevators made by Otis. It enabled these firms to sell "up time" rather... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

mission, a focus on the needs and aspirations of employees, and a well-defined industry niche. This interest led to his coauthoring The Winning Performance with Richard E. Cavanagh (MBA 1970), who later served as executive dean of the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion,... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

Periodical:Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the effects of mandated disclosure on the design of contracts and induced behavior in the presence of career concerns. We analyze the impact of two key properties of a... View Details