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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
feedback reports that help managers hone their essential skills. Because these tools were built from the ground up, using the staff's own input, they've been embraced by Google employees. Managers say that they've found their training to be invaluable, and managers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
partially reversed when the congressman resigns, and are most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects are economically meaningful and the mechanism—entirely distinct from the more traditional interest rate and tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
judgment or tactical execution. Having a metric in place that rates your priorities and weighs tradeoffs will enable you to make good decisions on the fly. Axiom #3: Learn And Adapt Bolstering your capacity to sense and respond is key to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex financial instruments... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the same loans evaluated under pay-for-performance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he didn't get the team by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
years before reforms. For these firms, measures of technology transfer increased by more than 30 percent. In addition, we found that non-resident patent applications increased and grew at a faster rate following reforms, indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
associated with shark footage. In a series of experiments, researchers found that music indeed has the power to influence public perceptions of sharks. Participants who viewed footage of swimming sharks set to ominous background music ended up View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
almost all current Internet, intranet, and extranet applications will disappear "in the dustbin of history" in four or five years, according to McFarlan. And given the undeniable rate of Internet growth in China, for example—10... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
then Liberia would be unlikely, in our opinion, not to grow at double-digit rates from the moment that the ore is exported in quantity, so long as market conditions for natural resources remain strong," the report concludes. But... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
effects were amplified by 100% and the daily schedule effects were fully mitigated (that is, reduced by 100%), the increase in inspectors’ detection rates would result in their citing an average of 9.9% more violations. Understanding... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual or firm's total tax rate with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
office, senior leadership's actions are consistent with what they say 46% 54% 67% I know what is expected of me at work 91% 76% 94% In my office, management is trusted 46% 30% 69% Employee engagement index (five is highest) 3.93 3.53 4.17 Two-year average annual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
however, half the initial financing had been spent, and UPromise was "burning" the rest at a rate that could exhaust it before year-end. But even as the number of employees exceeded 100 and the launch date for UPromise services... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
and per-capita GDP), how well women negotiate for jobs and compensation, and even higher rates of infidelity for women, approaching those for men. So greater gender parity itself can affect behavior and success View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
sales. If the economy remains shut for more than a couple of months, the enterprise will not survive. A creative donor rushing in with debt at low rates and a grace period may decide the future access of the majority of Mexicans to good... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost