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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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  • July 2024
  • Module Note

The Scope of the Corporation

By: David J. Collis
Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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    Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence

    Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence... View Details

    • January 2001
    • Background Note

    Country Analysis in a "Global Village"

    By: Bruce R. Scott
    Substantially rewritten to establish the relevance of countries in the global context. It does so in terms of their differing economic performance in recent decades, and also by contrasting those that have "converged" toward the rich country norm (as theory would... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Macroeconomics; Trade; Business Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Industry Growth; Currency; Policy; Development Economics
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    • 28 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation

    Keywords: by Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce & Francesca Gino
    • 28 Aug 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

    Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 3 Transaction Free Zones

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy,... View Details
    Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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    • 25 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accounting for Crises

    Keywords: by Venky Nagar & Gwen Yu
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

    By: Shon Hiatt and Wesley Sine
    Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many emerging economies, they often face unstable environments due to the failure of governments to maintain civil and political order. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Balance and Stability; Strategic Planning
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    • 2004
    • Book

    Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

    By: Amar Bhidé
    Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics

    By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
    We present the case for the centrality of overreaction in expectations for addressing important challenges in finance and macroeconomics. First, non-rational expectations by market participants can be measured and modeled in ways that address some of the key challenges... View Details
    Keywords: Overreaction; Rational Expectations; Macroeconomics; Market Participation; Social Psychology
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    • Article

    Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows

    By: Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro and Karim R. Lakhani
    Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such value is the collective flow of knowledge among community participants. We distinguish the... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Value Creation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 02 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Kevin Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

    • 05 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Trade Within Multinational Boundaries

    By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Fariha Kamal and Zachary Kroff
    We leverage newly linked data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis to study transactions within U.S. multinational enterprises (MNEs). We show that using administrative data on intrafirm trade allows us to correct for measurement error... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Enterprise; Input-output Linkages; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Supply Chain
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    • May 2024
    • Article

    Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

    By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
    Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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    • 21 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • 15 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Andrei Shleifer; Financial Services

      Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

      This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions.  The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project... View Details
      • 25 Aug 2009
      • News

      An Ounce of Prevention