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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Cambridge, for example, she served as a market research consultant, covering the telecommunications industry in Asia. Her strong interest in the region prompted her to seek a summer internship in the Philippines with Monitor Company, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in local... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
the focal ESG issue, even though such proposals nearly never received majority support. Improvements occur across both material and immaterial issues. Proposals on immaterial issues are associated with subsequent declines in firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
at many non-financial firms have highlighted a "low-leverage puzzle" and raised questions about the implications of cash holdings for corporate investment and economic growth. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Projects By: MacCormack, Alan, and Anant Mishra Abstract—Formal contracts represent an important governance instrument with which firms exercise control of and compensate partners in R&D projects. The specific type of contract used,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Clemens Raemy
a great experience, but my idea was too vulnerable to government actions. I realized I needed to learn more about business to avoid the same mistakes in the future.” Clemens’ work at Summit Partners provided some of that education. “Summit is special,” he says. “Unlike... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
lot better than the alternative. We would have had a disaster on the order of the Great Depression.” Paulson proposed two key reforms. The first would be the creation of a systemic risk regulator to monitor markets and intervene when any... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in local... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
were, in turn, more likely to cheat than those who weren't primed to think outside the box. Creative people are more likely to cheat in part because their creativity helps them to come up with ingenious explanations to justify their unethical behavior. The Learning... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Web 2.0 opportunities for your firm are endless. Managers can engage with customers via blogs (caution: they take much more time than you think). Victoria’s Secret and thousands of other firms have highly... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct pressure from View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark