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  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

study group, PhDs/postdocs and individuals previously employed at small firms). Specifically, our results indicate that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 36 percent rise in the odds that founders are PhD/postdocs relative to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

These performance differences appear to be partially explained by the buy-side's higher retention of poor-performing analysts and by differences in performance benchmarks used to evaluate buy- and sell-side analysts.   Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

or one that can be used for cross-site benchmarking studies); a local executive champion willing to support the TDABC analysis; an interest in scaling TDABC across conditions, locations, and/or care cycles; and an interest in using... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation consultants suggest that a primary objective of rTSR is to filter shocks unrelated to managerial performance, following the informativeness principle, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

corporations face when rewarding innovators within their labs. For instance, when Lilly Ventures was hit by its initial wave of defections, it benchmarked its compensation levels against those of independent firms. The conclusion was that... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

scandal drifted under a larger cloud of national media coverage, applications took a much steeper dive. For instance, when an event received at least one mention in the New York Times—which is considered a benchmark for studying national... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

her. Leave open the door for choice. As a manager, then, he said, "you're operating on the benchmark for how you want to engage people who work for you. And just because he or she doesn't accept the developmental relationship, he or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

of investors―extracted from co-search patterns―in addressing long-standing benchmarking problems in finance. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 August 2013 Academy of Management Journal Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

dominance, mainly through the design of new businesses and products before the competition might get to them. They wrote, "To set a company on a strong, profitable growth trajectory it won't work to benchmark competitors Nor is conducting... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology
  • 07 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

and acquisitions, often look outward for later-stage investments and exit opportunities. ConclusionLog 9’s dedication to aligning their products with the real-world demands of India's market, coupled with their commitment to empowering their workforce and strengthening... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR (rTSR) is increasingly used by market participants to judge and incentivize managerial performance. We evaluate the efficacy, reasons, and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

thresholds, targets, or benchmarks are set, and defining the pay-performance relation and how the relation changes over time. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1935654 Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

such “conceptual consumption” is essential for understanding human consumption. We first review how four classes of conceptual consumption—consuming expectancies, goals, fluency, and regulatory fit—impact physical consumption. Next, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Cynthia Carroll

earned prestigious awards. This is the kind of benchmark I want Anglo to be known for. In Alaska, we’ve spent over $100 million on environmental and socioeconomic impact studies pursuant to developing a copper mine at Bristol Bay in an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

pillars to hire contract workers with non-traditional backgrounds. Typically, these candidates, who lack relevant experience or academic qualifications, wouldn’t be eligible to work for a large corporation with a comparable reputation. Contracts last for three years... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

WMS site also features individual policy reports for manufacturing, education, health-care, and retail organizations, providing a management benchmark for executives in any of those fields. On average, based on the evaluation tool, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

consideration given to the underlying economic activities, the unique cluster boundaries, or the appropriate benchmark of economic concentration. Our goal is to increase awareness of the complexities behind cluster identification and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

they themselves have accomplished). “I think knowing exactly what I want has enabled me to have my own framework for personal success—which reduces the inclination to benchmark myself against other students/alumni by other metrics (like... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance