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- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
similar from firm to firm. ©iStock/joris484 Ideally, the compensation package motivates the CEO to make decisions that benefit both the executive and the company. Among economic scholars, there’s a whole line of theoretical research dedicated to striking that balance.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
The model requires a high level of trust. "In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other means." We can put some numbers on this. In a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
buck" calculations are potentially misleading guides for the welfare effects of alternative fiscal policies. Working PapersBehavioral Corporate Finance: An Updated Survey Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We survey the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
better—more successful, more ethical, and more effective at creating value for others. We’ll explore the latest theories and research findings on what we now know works when it comes to helping people, including ourselves, reach what I... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
more modular than the product from the tightly coupled organization. We measure modularity by capturing the level of coupling between a product's components. The magnitude of the differences is substantial-up to a factor of six, in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
and provide accurate feedback . Most situations, especially in the business world, have poor validity, in which case intuition is a poor guide. Vance Kirklin appeared to disagree with this, saying that, "Transformative decisions (strategic decisions that transform... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
conflicts of interest, myriad examples of bribery and extortion, unfair and predatory competition, theft and misappropriation of information, civic and environmental irresponsibility. Unfortunately, we have no reliable gauge of how the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
priorities of shareholder management are clear: shareholders have the loudest voice and the greatest influence. Some may argue that this notion became distorted by an element of agency theory that advocated outsized incentives for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human capital development. To... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
innovations—a theory that typically applies to new products—offers a framework for increasing the number of people who are willing, if not eager, to get vaccinated. Based on the traditional diffusion model, the number and types of people... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
revenues—she increases her chances of getting a large bonus the following year. This is a variation on the "big bath" theory of corporate financial reporting: If you're going to take a loss, take as big a loss as possible.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
Unit. From practical wisdom to action The book expands on the authors’ original theory that companies build organizational knowledge by turning tacit knowledge, which people learn through personal experience, into explicit knowledge that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
and less about hands-on doing. So really the challenge is about delegation and achieving leverage; and on some level it's about finding, hiring, developing, and retaining top people. With those individuals, you then have to build an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace