Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 1994
Supplement

Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (B-1): Initial Entry

Supplements Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (A): Interviewing with the PowerPlayer Software Engineering Team. View Details

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October 1988 (Revised March 1989)
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Florida Power Light Quality Improvement (QI) Story Exercise (B)

Designed to be used as an in-class handout after Florida Power Light Quality Improvement (QI) Story Exercise (A). A rewritten version of an earlier case by the same authors. View Details

Keywords: Quality; Utilities Industry; Florida

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August 2007
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Assessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System

By: John A. Davis

Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases, sources, and levels of power in a family business system. Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence

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May 2011
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The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details

Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues

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December 2011
Article

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence

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1995
Book

Power and Influence Customized Course Module

By: L. A. Hill

Keywords: Power and Influence

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12 Mar 2021
News

Powering the Innovation Flywheel in the Digital Era

22 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

November 1983 (Revised May 1984)
Case

Duke Power Co.: Affirmative Action (A)

Presents the dilemmas faced by the executive vice president of construction who is committed to pursuing affirmative action goals but is required by the financial condition of the company to lay off one-third of its construction workforce, which contains many recently... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Selection and Staffing; Ethics; Utilities Industry

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1971
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TVA and the Power Fight, 1933-1939

Keywords: History; Utilities Industry

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September–October 2024
Article

How AI Can Power Brand Management

By: Julian De Freitas and Elie Ofek

Marketers have begun experimenting with AI to improve their brand-management efforts. But unlike other marketing tasks, brand management involves more than just repeatedly executing one specialized function. Long considered the exclusive domain of creative talent, it... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; AI and Machine Learning; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Customer Focus and Relationships

February 2024
Module Note

Harnessing the Power of Financial Innovation

By: Boris Vallee

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13 Dec 2015
News

Amy Cuddy strikes a power pose

15 Aug 2024
News

How AI Can Power Brand Management

12 May 2020
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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal xpenditures. In... View Details

Apr 25 2012
Testimonial

The Power of the OPM Network

24 Mar 2016
News

A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On

Monthly dues and 24-hour club access are nothing unusual in the world of fitness—but when Leonard Schlemm bought the San Francisco Bay Area Nautilus club in 1983 for $45,000, members were required to sign 3-year contracts and could only use the facilities at appointed... View Details