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  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

prison sentence for financial fraud. In the case, Richards responds to a number of questions about managerial responsibility and the manipulation of financial performance in a letter written to a graduate student. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining quality and spurring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana Abstract As the main producers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

When information is asymmetric (the quality of a potential partner is known only to himself), it may seem that partner choice is not possible without signaling. Many mutualisms, however, exist without signaling, and the mechanisms by... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance measures of service View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

managerial practices explain this variation in productivity? A randomized evaluation of the introduction of a mobile-phone based agricultural consulting service, "Avaaj Otalo (AO)" to cotton farmers in Gujarat, India, reveals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker, reflects the dual role of workforce participation and output per... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

empirically show that firm operational performance has improved. Finally, we suggest that the lean initiative studied possesses qualities of a Trojan Horse change initiative—its outward manifestation accomplishes the short-term goal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 27, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

a discussion of how principles of behavioral economics can be used to influence behavior, and how an understanding of behavioral economics can inform managerial decisions about product adoption and diffusion. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

of its pricing, the strategic interaction between prices set by the content provider and by the platforms leads to a non-monotonic relationship between exclusivity and content quality: both high- and low-quality content will multihome and join both platforms, but there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Middle Way

kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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