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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
is why. Why is this country so driven by the attainment of wealth? If you go to other countries, there are people who work very hard, who have a nice standard of living, but they're not so focused on one thing. Q: What you're talking... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
environment and social responsibility factors, could take into account manufacturers' political activities. Standards like the ISO 14001 environmental management system and the LEED green building standard, which help to distinguish... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
coordinated with local agencies. In roughly 10 percent of the medical emergencies, EMTs save a patient’s life. Ambulances generally arrive on the scene in under 15 minutes, and the mean service time from a call to 108 to arriving at the hospital is just 34 minutes —... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
were standard for start-ups, but some were unique to hedge funds—among them choosing the right fund structure, as well as how to raise capital for the management company versus raising capital to invest. Given the recent backlash against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
not just the politically connected or the business elite. Necessary steps to ensure this include the promotion of transparency in government affairs through the adoption of high-quality standards for government accounting that will... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
observers. We identify boundary conditions and demonstrate that the positive inferences disappear when the observer is unfamiliar with the environment, when the nonconforming behavior is depicted as unintentional, and in the absence of expected norms and shared View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
years, when he "drove exuberantly." Car-sharing companies like Zipcar provide customers with a similar opportunity for exuberance by turning driving back into a treat. Whereas traditional car rental companies choose standard... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
convictions of the Valley's remarkable innovators, who created not just a company but an industry, still echo through the community. Bill Hewlett and David Packard influenced the older generation directly; many of them were early employees. Through this old guard,... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
of ethical standards are also tightly linked with how negotiators understand and define the game. Laboratory research on ethics in negotiation is starting to reveal, for instance, just how flexible and ambiguous such "standards"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low level by the View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
importance of reinvesting at this point. Q: In this context, you advance an unusual definition of competitiveness. Is that really the fulcrum for your whole project? JR: We define US competitiveness as the ability of firms in the US to succeed in the global marketplace... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates readily satisfied the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
769-774 Abstract An examination of the role of research in business. The authors argue that scholars producing research in business fields are subject to stricter research standards due to the fact that they must produce work that is both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
organization's strategic focus. This is typically not something that an organization advertises. But it is standard practice in a number of organizations today. For example, at ING DIRECT, the fastest-growing financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard... View Details