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  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

collection advances make sure such testing is possible. We motivate further research, develop our model's strategic implications, and discuss how managers might create and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2018
  • Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

for opportunities to make your own contributions to community concerns; Sharing your own stories, elaborating and expanding on the interests and motivations that drive you.... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

  PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

progress in life and in business. HBS Working Knowledge asked Zaleznik to reflect on the inner life of leaders. Martha Lagace: Your book is an intellectual and introspective discussion of leadership that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

responsible for sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009
  • Teaching Note

AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [609004]. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Investment; Industry Clusters; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Science; Geographic Location; Semiconductor Industry; Germany; Europe; United States
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

some minorities—those who eventually became executives—avoided that fate. What kept them motivated and prepared to take advantage of opportunities that arrived belatedly? A common thread among them was their... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

support. Internally, it is important so that people working within the nonprofit have a clear idea of concrete goals that the organization is saying it will achieve, because this will help them figure out what actions to take, motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Siegmund Warburg. In some measure, no doubt, the bankers' primary motive was the profit motive. Yet there is also compelling evidence that Warburg and his associates also had a political agenda. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

skill and effort, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

George Serafeim and Malcolm Baker have long been interested in investor motivations that go beyond pure financial return to include environmental, social, and governance (ESG)... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 9

offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, providers received a fixed-dollar budget to cover all care provided to a specific patient population, as well as incentive payments for quality. The AQC was piloted in 2009 by a handful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

"boilerplate" to the agents' incentives to just lack of creative thinking and willingness to push the boundaries of what's done. One of the goals of the book is to put these kinds of moves on the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna