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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
But the leadership development industry is in a state of upheaval. The number of players offering courses to impart the hard and soft skills required of corporate managers has expanded well beyond traditional business schools, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning nonprofit has partnered with 250... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local subsidiaries and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
service, she’s clear and intentional: “I always kn ew I’d be o n corporate boards. From the outset, I had it as an ambition that I’d join a public board, so I took advantage of opportunities in corporate... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at the core of the new corporate strategy, alongside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls them — in eight hundred branch... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
firms' corporate board members, using data from a private research company specializing in biographical information on company officials. Looking at the data, the team found a large correlation between the ethnic makeup of a firm's board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
economic welfare. Paper: http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.45 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
work arrangements, meaningful mentorship programs, and sense of mission. General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
many corporate boards are not willing to do the work," suggesting that unless this is made grounds for dismissal, directors are not likely to apply themselves to the task. Edward Hare added that "one needs to get to know an... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
using the "Obermeyer method": new products are displayed in a room at corporate headquarters just as they would be in a retail store, and about 30 store employees, who are chosen to represent the... View Details