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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Non-Repatriation of Foreign Cash Negatively Affect U.S. Firms’ Operations? Evidence from Product Market Competitiveness By: Alhusaini, Badryah, Rick Laux, Henock Louis, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—Cash holdings provide the crucial advantage of instant availability in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
very talented executives into the mix, you can help organizations change their effectiveness and their view of what's possible." Bannick agreed that investors should curb the need for speed when shifting their focus from financial... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
documents to get up to speed in a particular area and to find out who has done work on a topic. They then approach those people directly. When we initially looked at how consulting companies manage knowledge, we found that they all used... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain financial performance beyond the "direct goal" of profit. These might include the speed of aircraft turnaround in the airline industry, the conversion rate of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
government should speed up its reforms in the internal sector rather than scale back external sector reforms. Q: On the influence of émigrés, you write, "With the help of its diaspora, China has won the race to be the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
surprised by the speed with which IAS/IFRS was overhauled once the EU decided to adopt the standards. I truly did not think the board would be able to pull it off. They really should be commended for the View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
words, is "blink" a behavior particularly suited to rather simple binary decisions? If this is the case, why is it that some executives seem able to make better-quality snap judgements than others while gaining the value of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
speeding along. He would like to wire his will into the lives of millions—by creating a structure that will constrain their behaviors according to his wishes. He is the ambitious demon of our age—one whose incarnation in the Carnegies and... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
effect on productivity and innovation. As I showed in my book Confidence, organizations on “winning streaks” thrive on a culture of respect, which underlies speed and innovation, while “losing streaks” are full of secret anger, shunning... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
this article, I outline an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, I argue, should focus on four goals: 1) linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion of ideas into market-ready... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
exponentially increasing the speed and flow of that information, making the system that much more transparent. And we have social media restoring democracy with free speech. Before all of this, the information flow was much more... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
today most often is associated with good management practice. It is thought by some to generate the trust that fosters everything from cooperation to speed in decision making and execution. It forces managers either to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
potential partners, all of whom are extremely busy. Networked incubators have sprung up now because of the critical need for access: The Internet economy is very much a network economy in which access and connections can help quickly launch businesses, increase the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
quality of information better but the speed as well." Ralflippold felt we will face a bubble at some time, but suggested that bubbles have a positive side to them, that they are on one side of a fine line, a line that is beneficial... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
worth your time getting up to speed quickly. Commissioning is the process by which you make sure your building is performing the way it was designed to. (Or for new buildings, it’s the process by which you verify you are getting the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
is still by far the leading academic research center in Europe in terms of science and technology. ls. A focus on attracting more technologically intensive industries and better connecting the country’s academic institutions with companies to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
local budgets when extreme circumstances all but eliminate a major revenue stream, Green says. The research also spotlights the speed with which the pandemic inflicted damage on state and local budgets, as compared to the slow decline... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz