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- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Representatives passed a bill granting shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. It also maintains that compensation committees should be independent of management. But given its non-binding status,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
number of execs with at least one stigma on their resume was large, accounting for 18 percent of more than 2,000 executives placed between 2004 and 2011. After controlling for education, gender, experience,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
conditions. During normal or expansion periods in the economy, the dynamics of cost of capital generate an upward sloping term structure; however, in times of high economic uncertainty, the term structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
persistent, and sometimes unexpected, impact on organizations' strategies. Cases & Course MaterialsAcciona and the Battle for Control of Endesa Belen Villalonga View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
inequality is costing the global economy $12 trillion annually, with North America accounting for 25 percent of that total followed by China’s 20-plus percent. If diversity and gender equality have so much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
quality and efficiency. The introduction of this transparency contributed to a 22.2% increase in customer-reported quality and reduced throughput times by 19.2%. Laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
technology lab." Tell us briefly how and why you believe Chinese and Indian émigrés have come to perpetuate such different roles. Do you see these roles changing? A: The different composition of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase in... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
deal of time trying to concoct a strategy for dealing with this unsettling cyber-priest. But there really wasn't much that they could do, so they left Gaillot and his liberal site alone. Partenia had won. In... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar