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  • October 2014
  • Case

McKinsey & Company, 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details
Keywords: Consulting Firms; McKinsey; Strategy; Consulting Industry; North America
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  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

Peninsula had identified Chile as a target market; however, in investing in Residencial Los Andes, it had made several exceptions to its investment strategy. The case addresses what went wrong in the evolution of the project as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces companies to split the CEO and board chairman positions. "The leadership at some of the nation's most renowned companies took too many... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to Serra’s life and provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and product strategy, bringing change in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2020
  • Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53887 2018 Handbook of Well-Being Time, Money, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical technological advances. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

that novel rituals can inculcate bias, but only when they have certain features. It appears rituals need to be sufficiently elaborate and repeated over a period of time to impact group functioning. As a first step, we find modest support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2021
  • Technical Note

SPAC Space

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248... View Details
Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Strategy
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  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection against security breaches afforded by safeguards, rival clients may View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting that such individuals can be responsible for important instances of creativity and innovation in the world: open innovation, user... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace