Wall Street - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

instruments," said Rose. "Most of the firms on Wall Street followed each other around to the same parts of the market and ended up mimicking each other, which is a classic strategic failure. So... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

envy and imitate. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. Increasingly, outsiders view our political system as riven by politicians preoccupied with their own reelection, resulting in a tragic stalemate. Long before Occupy Wall View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the 12-month period ending May 2016, according to the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

committed to helping others achieve shared goals?" In some situations—a Wall Street trading floor or a car dealership, for example—people are paid on commission, and it doesn't matter if they're... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

CEOs on the Business Roundtable took out full-page advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times supporting Trump’s proposed apprenticeship programs. Will this upsurge in CEO engagement last,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

Fraud," is published in the December 2006 Journal of Accounting Research. Miller, whose favorite non-academic business reading includes the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the investor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

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

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

permission. Most companies will not begin reinvesting until the Wall Street Journal or Ben Bernanke officially declare the recovery underway. Get ahead of the crowd. Craft your recovery plan now, and pull... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

imposing "physical presence," "intellectual strength," a "natural sense of humor," and the "ability to present himself well to both Wall Street and the average... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

The current debate in the United States about how to regulate Wall Street focuses on laws, regulations, and monitoring. But lawmakers may want to look to history for guidance, to Brazil 100 years ago, when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

based on our financial thresholds. The bulk of the business leaders on our list were culled from an extensive review of historical biographical references and business rankings. The rankings included historical lists by Fortune, Forbes, Time, The View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

return on investment (ROI). Wall Street was a data-driven place to work, and if they wanted to create something that would survive beyond the tenure of the firm's existing leadership, they had to prove that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

recent Wall Street Journal headline said, "Google Weighs on Madison Avenue," not "Google Weighs on Advertising Agencies.") New entrants to the industry need to be associated with... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

Source: iStock In June 2017, the US House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, a 589-page bill designed to repeal many of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

encountered skepticism from both European consumers and investors about the unfamiliar self-storage concept and internal debates on how much to adapt the U.S. business model to European lifestyles. Wall View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

lower-paid workers in other countries. The second story, buried on the inside pages of the Wall Street Journal, concerned the announcement by the head of Union Network International, a federation of 900... View Details