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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
deductive proposition, supported by experimental and observational evidence, other forms of knowledge can be both valid and useful. In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
compared to Kmart. (The other companies in their quad were Target and the Limited.) Both companies were in roughly the same financial shape in 1986, but Dollar General grew... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
nearby, and whether the slum dwellers will be allowed to resell their units or whether they must remain in them. Other issues include timing of the project, guarantees to and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing, have successfully incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
iStock Summing Up How Should Organizations Draw the Line on Pay Transparency? There is general support for the widespread practice of disclosing pay data in "bands" associated with jobs. Fewer... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
about and acknowledging his own contributions to organizational underperformance or other work problems is critical to getting employees to improve and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
mind-set and will be expected to offer your CEO deep insights on key business decisions. This article explores those developments in more detail and explains other findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
waste into by-product. In some cases, when the markets for the primary and by-products are "separable," it is optimal to convert only a portion of the waste into by-product and disposing of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement? Roth 401(k) contributions are not tax-deductible in the... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
area, some of them from other countries, including China. However, most of the jobs, in assembling and packing the components, are of necessity low-wage in nature. Regardless of the number of jobs it can... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
of directors, the family council and the family assembly generally are more effective forums for shareholders for setting direction and creating policies. Fundamental to the... View Details