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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Macroeconomic Expectations By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola Gennaioli , Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2020 What does predictability of forecast errors teach us about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality of individual and View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
trap. She was taken by surprise by all the ways that her idea did not speak for itself. It was hard to fathom. Her dream was big, her motivation was pure, and her credibility was high. Her reading of the community mood said that there was View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
a board member, I’ve unfortunately had to confront these issues. The McDonald’s board faced these issues in October 2019. The company’s CEO at the time, Steve Easterbrook, was found to have “engaged in a consensual relationship with an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
needed for major programs or decisions to be approved. There were continuous conversations among the owners and family about important issues and these drove out consensus. Consensus never required unanimity but rather the feeling that... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
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Connell House | About
its shipyard and manufacturing companies in 1985, Connell became the new entity’s CEO, betting against the emerging consensus that US manufacturing was dead. Over the next 14 years, Connell, the son of Irish immigrants, grew his metal... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
irreparably torn, unable to build consensus to solve the country’s most pressing social and economic problems? That is a danger, Kempf warns, especially since research shows people are most likely to encounter others with different... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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John H. McArthur | About
launching his remarkable career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator and culminating with his appointment as the School’s seventh dean. McArthur’s vision, passion, and unparalleled gift for building consensus transformed the School.... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
that will help the team advance its goals. Generating a detailed list of every single item is not necessary, but the relaunch session helps team members reach a general consensus about what the team needs, its current resources, and how... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is actually quite a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
concepts To conclude the notion of one ‘wheel’ could be a thing of the past, because there are many wheels turning at the same time.” The general consensus among those commenting on the question was that Amazon, even with its... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
available. For example, retail chains and commercial airlines, which lease a lot of their assets such as stores and airplanes, might rationally prefer Chapter 11 to restructuring out of court. The second impediment to reaching a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
decision-making. “If you are able to achieve it, consensus works best because there are no losers, and people don’t feel alienated from the organization,” Whitehead explained. But he acknowledged that View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
types of organizations. Highly entrepreneurial organizations are rabbits, emphasizing innovation and risk-taking. And tigers are built around competitive advantage and market superiority. Elephants are, as you would expect, full of regulation and bureaucracy. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
transformational leadership. Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael A. Roberto (Wharton School Publishing) Assistant Professor Roberto offers guidance to leaders who want to improve... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
father did, and yet my consensual style gets the same or better results." "I don't manage our employees in the autocratic way that my father did, and yet my consensual style gets the same or better results."... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 23 Jul 2016
- News
The Art of Persuasion
bit of consensus building and (if you want) self-motivation and drive from people, you have to get them excited about the idea. I learnt the art of persuasion in business school.” Named managing director in 2010, Piramal also described... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
kind. That's the consensus among those responding to my recent questions concerning the future of the best and brightest of the Internet entrepreneurs still in business who have yet to achieve cash flow breakeven. As Yung-Hi Lim put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett