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  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India. The case then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

fills this void by explaining how a country's institutional differences, cultural considerations, and personal characteristics can affect the role that entrepreneurs play in its economy. Developing an understanding of the origins of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

where the future lay. From the first, with no particular basis for the assertion, Watson endlessly repeated to his employees that "IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that will go on forever." Despite... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

Control, and the National Institutes of Health are huge enterprises. There will not be a single governance model." What Can Private Industry Learn From Government? Data.gov serves as a beacon for changing the IT culture in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

stockholder-managerial relationships predicated in part on reciprocity and mutual regard, could improve both the moral character of business and the profitability of corporate enterprise. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: An Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2020
  • Article

How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Christopher Palmer
We document the transmission of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve to the real economy using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data and an identification strategy based on mortgage market segmentation. We find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Policy; MBS; Quantitative Easing; LSAP; Refinancing; Deleveraging; HARP; GSE; Central Banking; Global Range; Financing and Loans; Credit; United States
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Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?

By: Ramana Nanda and Tom Nicholas
We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, we also show that because a sufficient... View Details
Keywords: Great Depression; R＆D; Bank Distress; Patents; Research and Development; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; United States
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  • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (A)

By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; Banks and Banking; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • March 2009 (Revised May 2013)
  • Supplement

Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B)

By: Laura Alfaro and Akiko Kanno
Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An economic recovery had allowed the central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Money; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Policy; Japan
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The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
That public policy affects organizational behaviors is well accepted, but less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We investigate how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
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  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

of leadership in political, economic, and symbolic institutions as a result of one of three types of leadership: good leadership, misguided leadership, and evil leadership. This innovative book outlines a framework of human behavior that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

public relations agency, instituted a Client Relationship Leader (CRL) Program for its top 32 global accounts. The purpose of the program is to ensure that all of the firm's resources across geographies, practice areas, and specialty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

ongoing sources of geographic and social mobility. Because individuals derived most of their meaning from institutions grounded in enduring social relations—institutions like family, community, and religion—the leading social thinkers of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

measures of constraints. These findings imply a high degree of market segmentation and suggest that frictions within specialized financial institutions prevent capital from flowing into the market at shorter horizons. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term investment in AACo. The changes happened in response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

today. Historical evidence suggests it is remarkably difficult to reverse corruption when it has become systemic. The few successful cases, such as Singapore, point to the importance of institutional reforms, especially taking... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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