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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Emerald Press, forthcoming Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
or adaptive organism, there are changes. Karl Marx, while he was wrong about almost everything, was actually right on at least one thing — the labor theory of value. What matters most is the people in your company, more than the capital,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
story: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/53104 Toward a Theory of Extended Contact: The Incentives and Opportunities for Bridging across Network Communities Authors:Maxim Sytch, Adam Tatarynowicz, and Ranjay Gulati Publication:Organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
consider what other institutions, such as companies, might do. In addition, companies are sometimes more responsive than governments to the populace. Our aim is to encourage creative theory and research that considers the conditions under... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial future. "She told me how she... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
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Erica Moszkowski
active research agenda.” In the PhD program in Business Economics at HBS, Erica receives the same rigorous economic training as her colleagues in the Economics department within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but with a special emphasis on bringing economic View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
through which our lives have improved,” said Christensen, the author or coauthor of several books on innovation, including the most recent, Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Disruptive... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
partaking of many in strategy making. The paper contributes to theory by relating the current findings to the literature on the connection between commitment and performance and on the strategic management literature that focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Their results appear in the August 2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many organizations have a bias toward solving sticky problems through collaboration, either in person or virtually. The more eyes on a problem, the View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007
Working PapersShamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Abstract We apply institutional theory to explain how firms respond to information disclosure. Considering the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne