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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
0.5 percent. The federal tax cut reduced rates by 14 percent, so the income-shifting motivation is likely to be much stronger.” Prior research largely focused on how personal taxes impact income inequity, and Rouen wanted to take a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309093 Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 708-001 In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its fixed exchange View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
economic system at a different rate than they encountered the ideals of capitalism—and the long-term consequences of that gap—is worth exploring,” he says, adding that we take for granted many of the virtues... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
substantially different attrition rates among competitors. Companies with healthy, high-commitment, high-performance cultures—such as Southwest Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car—have had comparatively less... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
these settings. In this paper we set out to accomplish both tasks by investigating the implementation of a lean production system at an Indian software services firm. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements in emerging markets. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
compensation systems linked to the scorecard and revising the planning and budgeting processes to support the strategy. They also reinforced the strategy and the scorecard at every opportunity, especially in their face-to-face meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
topic of global talent management. It can be used to analyze the performance measurement, incentive, and talent development system used at a major multinational company. This case can also be used to analyze the extent to which this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Alan Morrison Abstract—Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
School Case 117-107 Management Control Systems Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems This module provides tools for acquiring and allocating resources. Analytic techniques related to cash flow... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
Language Frustration Neeley and her colleagues found ample evidence that language anxiety and frustration were common throughout many of the interviews; many reported a sense of being "other" or experiencing an "us versus them" dynamic at a work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
context. I believe that once we can articulate how racism harms everyone, we are closer to dismantling the system that harms us all. Broderick Turner is an assistant professor of marketing at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne