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  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

experience. Prioritizing the shortest tasks is particularly detrimental to productivity. Actively grouping similar tasks also reduces productivity, in stark contrast to productivity gains from exogenous grouping, indicating deviation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer By: Ehdaie, Behfar, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra, and Andrew Vickers Abstract—A systematic approach to counseling—using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

prescriptions annually, and has supported 28 million patient visits through MinuteClinic since its inception. Ultimately, this one-of-a-kind, integrated business model is focused on creating superior value for patients, payers and providers, while driving continued... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

  Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

advocates is to find a way to enact humanitarian sentiments in a world where shareholder wealth reigns.—Margolis & Walsh Closer to home, the picture may be more vivid and compelling. For twenty years, Americans have lived through a... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores.   Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

for creating public policies that actively assist these companies in their early stages, or even in their more-established stages. The nation should definitely consider a regulation that makes entrepreneurial, job-creating companies... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

articulated by (HBS professor) Michael Porter, will be most successful when the collection of integrated and aligned activities enable the company to offer a value proposition—whether low total cost, product leadership, complete customer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

little guidance. Executives may be tempted to take refuge in the idea that they have fiduciary obligations to maximize shareholder returns, but this is simply a myth—corporate leaders have many responsibilities, but there is no... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research and academic activities of the roundtable participants, or any... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

expenses between the businesses in a way detrimental to Friendly shareholders but personally advantageous to the CEO. Further, Blake believed that Friendly's board of directors was not meeting their fiduciary obligations to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

obligations to shareholders by properly overseeing the activities of the CEO, and that the directors had conflicts of interest, because they were involved with the CEO's non-Friendly business activities. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate resources required for business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace