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  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

company's choices in terms of strategy, control systems, and culture. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of dealing jointly with a market-wide crisis (subprime) and a company-level crisis. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

Warning Labels Work! What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism? Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy? Do you pay attention to privacy policies? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine which factors are most important for driving perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Roche and Boudou considered several explanations for their findings: whether the technology driving the startup was too new or not good enough, and whether the founders took too central a role in controlling or managing the company.... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein
This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Accounting; Economics; Money; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; Europe; Switzerland; United States; California
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  • June 2011 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure in the European Union

By: George Serafeim
In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended that European companies report ESG... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Accounting; Competitive Strategy; International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Debates; Europe
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  • October 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie Gomez
On September 2003, Richard Grasso stepped down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's payout, Ken Langone... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor and Management Relations; Wages; Change Management; Energy Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 2010
  • Article

Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance

By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Decisions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Voting; Globalized Economies and Regions
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  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

everything at once. You don't try to take on the teacher's unions; you don't try to have IBM control it. You're reducing the amount of resistance it's going to get, which is always a brilliant change principle. People think if you're... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers and social media. Many of these things are out of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

employee morale. Internally initiated bribery from senior management is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by the control systems of the firm is less likely to be associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

had increased access to location data, potentially threatening to enter the real-time traffic information (RTTI) space. Current competitors Navteq and Tele Atlas were also looking to grow through global expansion. Mistele also knew that the VC firms that held View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

on the 45 weekly SKUs went from 98.24 percent to 99.96 percent. Sales for the 45 SKUs increased by 32 percent, even while sales for the control SKUs fell by 10 percent. Why did sales rise by 32 percent rather than 1.72 percent, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

a worker bee, what's it like to show up to work each day in one of these companies? A: Here is what I think characterizes these workplaces. They are much more dynamic and flexible, and people exercise much more control about when and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their online grocer with the purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

compare mobility with and without noncompetes, controlling for other factors in what economists call a "natural experiment." States differ in their enforcement of noncompetes. That said, even the anticipation of a drawn-out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned manufacturer in India. The company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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