Relative Performance Evaluation - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

and is the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic. Reading his contribution to this book gets to the crux of the issue. Yes, a board seems like a relatively simple institution with 10 people sitting around a table, but it's a lot more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar, you’re right. Treasury Secretary... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members. Star analysts who moved between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of... View Details

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

added. Witnessing the hidden work performed on their behalf makes customers more satisfied, more willing to pay, and more loyal. It can also make employees more satisfied by demonstrating to them that they are serving their customers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of directors, and to measure View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

today means a shortfall in performance tomorrow. Miller describes how to nurture leaders throughout the organization, from the front lines to the executive ranks. He outlines a clear and replicable approach to creating the leadership... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

together some of the time to feel connected and to generate new ideas and solutions. The question going forward is not whether remote work will continue, but rather, when does remote work make sense? Conceptually, it’s simple. Working from home works best for View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

for new features. Our paper introduces a dynamic mixed duopoly model in which a profit-maximizing competitor (Microsoft) interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (Linux), with the installed base affecting their relative values over... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were all happy and doing well." That comfortable situation changed abruptly when oil prices soared in the 1980s, and the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures headquarters from the suburbs to the downtown area in 2010; and add urban-dwelling millennials, who see opportunity in Detroit’s relatively inexpensive real estate. Of some potential foreign investors... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be used to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to book value); (2) Return on Assets Ratios; and (3) Market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

earned relatively high margins on products rooted in science and innovation. However, Lyons believed downstream integration would allow Alltech to better communicate with its end customers (farmers), increase sales of its supplements, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

finished a master’s degree in sociology at Oxford University. “I didn’t even know what a ticker was,” recalls Landles-Dowling, who double-majored in math and music at Wellesley College. “But it turned out that analyzing companies was something I was View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

the people providing it, you cannot evaluate what they say or interpret its implications. Do You Use Your Network to Link The Work of Your Group and the Rest of the Organization? [ ] Here you troubleshoot problems: speak for, protect, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details