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  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

being nice or lowering performance standards. She labels an organization with high PS and high standards as being in the “Learning & High View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

proposals that received a MV between 1997 and 2004, we find that the frequency of implementation has almost doubled from 22% between 1997 and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

between these two groups. The family constitution articulates a family's vision for itself and the business, its core values and the policies and... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

technological language between suppliers and customers. These standards are primarily business-to-business programs that can be certified by independent agents, similar to how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

Link between Non-financial and Financial Performance in One Space Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Jess Schulschenk, and George Serafeim Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

Kotsantonis, Sakis, Christopher Pinney, and George Serafeim Abstract—The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

performance, the authors agree. But goal setting must be prescribed in doses, not as a standard remedy to increase productivity. They even offer a warning label and list 10 questions managers should ask... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

$0.80) for processing customer orders, $35.20 (44 by $0.80) for handling inquiries, and $40 (50 by $0.80) for performing credit checks. Once you have calculated these standard... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

  Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Assistant, which helps new sellers prepare professional-looking online listings, and its Turbo Lister service, which tracks and manages thousands of bulk listings on home computers. The company has also... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The Balanced Scorecard introduced customer metrics into performance management systems. Scorecards feature all manner of wonderful objectives relating to the customer value proposition and customer outcome... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 24 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 24

  PublicationsThe Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

anti-predatory laws to instrument for an outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards of effectiveness-all characteristics that are being altered by changes in the larger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business diversification View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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