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September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
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FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details

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13 Aug 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

leave. Research has shown that US cities that mandated paid sick leave experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health insurance to employment. Cleaving insurance from employment is often viewed as a path to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Aug 2010
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developed economies historically, and even today. In analyzing this historical evidence, the chapter first shows how organizational forms of business groups were employed over long time periods to control large and diversified... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2007
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to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

there are fewer governmental controls and safety nets than in other countries. The second quarter of this year provided a "correction" in U.S. equity markets, and a lot of dot-coms have become dot-bombs. Kane: We actually have... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering practices and goals. This sad... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up of the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants without affecting non-immigrants, while turnout... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2015
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Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

reason that if a firm could afford to pay its CEO an eight-figure salary, it could also afford to manufacture higher-quality products than a firm that paid its CEO a six-figure salary? With that in mind, they conducted a study that View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

13 Mar 2014
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Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

upgrade the nation's air traffic control system. Kanter acknowledged that the projects needed to address the country's infrastructure issues are not small, but noted that the US has a long history of taking on big national purpose... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

14 Jul 2009
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controlling for other, previously identified effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2004
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Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some of the metrics shown here are evaluations of... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

13 Jul 2010
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Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese

In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details

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30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Better informed firms and consumers choose more favorable arbitrators. We develop and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection in which, like the current process, both the informed firms and uninformed consumers have control over the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Dec 2014
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Kingdom, and the United States). By this measure, family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CEOs, even when we control for a wide range of CEO, firm, and industry characteristics. The differences in hours worked between... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jul 2009
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1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a matched control group of non-adopters. Among surviving employers, ISO adopters had higher growth rates for sales, employment,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2008
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spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for customer fixed effects. However, orders placed by a customer... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2007
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process so that creators produce tangible artifacts regularly; (6) realize that there will always be some conflict between an organization's creators and its stewards; (7) avoid overly prescriptive control mechanisms that may alienate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
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recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

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Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

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Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

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