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- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
new potential problems to the process? Can the effectiveness of pay for performance be improved by extending payout periods or determining performance on non-financial criteria? Or should reliance on pay for performance be reduced in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
key to the success of a large organization is the ability to make it seem small to employees. For example, Ken Iverson maintains that his company, Nucor Steel, should not have more than a couple hundred employees in any one of its minimill steel-producing facilities.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
deepening and a decline in total factor productivity following the introduction of wrongful-discharge protections. This last result is potentially quite important, suggesting that mandated employment protections reduce productive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
that were discontinued at Hewlett-Packard, these programs may indeed have an upside—but there is a potential downside lurking, too. The HP experience was eye-opening as well as sobering. Thirteen separate units of the company—at different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
push into other countries more quickly. "Building a functioning multinational firm is a huge challenge. There are many that underestimate it." A strong rise in both venture capital and private equity funds under management shows that there is an enormous... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
was potential to "expand the pie," Riley said, "what we found is that men were better at claiming the pie. On the other hand, woman-woman dyads were the best at expanding the pie." "These results were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
are prone to leave or overlook U.S. locations because they ignore many hidden costs associated with offshoring and do not consider how to enhance the economic potential of U.S. locations. Although both government and business must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
powerful, able even to submit and veto bills from the legislature. Argentina has the potential for pleasant surprises, simply because it has performed so poorly in recent years This provides one explanation for the remarkable stability in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
information from their back pockets and transfer it to the problem at hand. In a four-week period of time, over 574 scientists investigated the problem statement and forty-two of them submitted potential solutions for considerations. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
IASB and own potential political power at the IASB. Based on how countries are classified along these dimensions, I offer predictions, ceteris paribus, on countries' IFRS harmonization strategies. The analysis and framework in this paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated,” she said. “Bright spots and positive momentum matter when it comes to directing the energy that exists in Cincinnati toward addressing the epidemic.” Now though, days before Hacking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
PublicationsWhat to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential Author:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 Abstract Successful leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
double-edged sword because of the power such a client has over a young, struggling firm, the signal that the prestige of the client sends out is more valuable than any potential negative impact. Hence, entrepreneurs and managers should... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
watching the response." Let them lead while you learn. When you identify new offerings or markets where your assessment of initial risk versus potential returns suggests caution, a competitor may do you the favor of venturing onto... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
current research on document management, with a view to identifying a potential spin-off. Shao and Newton had both worked together at Ingres, a database software company. Shao had been a member of one other startup company and had spent... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough