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Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China
By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray
We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China
Jiang, Crystal, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Murray. "Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China." Journal of International Business Studies 42, no. 9 (December 2011): 1150–1173. (Equal Authorship Among All Authors.)
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Sendhil Mullainathan Abstract—Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, with the goal of improving productivity. Traditionally, models have assumed workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore comparative View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
comprehensive disclosure will protect the investor against disaster. The tensions in the American business model surrounding the way companies measure and track their performance are much less... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- November 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Caja España: Managing the Branches to Sell (A)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and Rosario de Albornoz
Juan Luis Rojas, commercial planning manager of a Caja de Ahorros (savings bank), faces the challenge of motivating the branches to sell more long-term mortgages and ponders whether to use transfer prices to achieve his objective. View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Banks and Banking; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Banking Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Rosario de Albornoz. "Caja España: Managing the Branches to Sell (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-044, November 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- January 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)
In October 2005, Myrto Lazopoulou, head of user centered design at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), contemplates how to spread the usage of wikis inside the company. As a "social software" like chats and blogs (both already in use at DrKW),... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Investment Banking; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Cooperation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Anders Sjoman. "Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-074, January 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- December 2012
- Article
Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment
By: Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts
SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate the current fair value of goodwill to determine goodwill write-offs. In promulgating the standard, the FASB predicted managers will, on average, use the fair value estimates to convey private information on future cash flows. The... View Details
Keywords: Goodwill Impairment; Fair-value Accounting; FASB; SFAS 142; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; Cash Flow; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives; Forecasting and Prediction; Goodwill Accounting
Ramanna, Karthik, and Ross L. Watts. "Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment." Review of Accounting Studies 17, no. 4 (December 2012): 749–780.
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
incredible source of opportunity for entrepreneurial activity.” SHIRLEY LU, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Shirley Lu conducts research on how companies communicate environmental and social information. Some of her work... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
workshop." Over the past 10 to 15 years the object of management attention has widened to include the care itself. With the development of generally accepted standard processes we have become able to design operating systems specifically to support those processes... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details
- January 2010
- Case
Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well
By: Srikant M. Datar, Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani and Anjali Raina
The case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It focuses on the problem Madhav Chavan, the founder, is trying to solve, the contributing factors... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Evaluation; Change Management; Organizational Design; Early Childhood Education; Management Systems; Strategy; Quality; Education Industry; India
Datar, Srikant M., Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani, and Anjali Raina. "Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well." Harvard Business School Case 110-001, January 2010.
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Recent articles have looked at research into the history, efficacy, and social responsibility found at the intersection of business and the environment. Here is a sample of some of the latest work from the School. How CEOs Sustain... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details