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  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces of data we looked at was job offers to MBA graduates. Once we View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2023 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

JSW Steel: Balancing Growth While Decarbonizing

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
Sajjan Jindal, Chairman & Managing Director of JSW Steel, India's largest steel producer by market capitalization, was facing a dilemma. Steel demand in India was expected to grow exponentially over the next decade. However, given its traditional reliance on carbon,... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pollutants; Pollution; Production; Steel Industry; India
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  • October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Maurer and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
The Cosan case introduces students and executive education participants to political economy and business strategy in the biofuels industry. Cosan, based in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

1994 and 2010, indicating the CPP is an influential event in the history of U.S. bank SEOs during this period. Controlling for economic and regulatory capital determinants of SEOs, CPP recipients were more likely than non-recipients to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

non-ethnically Chinese firms of similar size, age, and other characteristics. In addition, within strata of matched firms based on their intangible assets and human capital, ethnically Chinese firms no longer display significant dynamic disadvantage relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

transformation in the music and television industries as well. Their audiences are fragmented and people are demanding mobility, immediacy, and control over their media consumption. This makes some industries' traditional business and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

Controlling for alternative drivers of sales and inventory shrinkage, we find this change in incentive design to be associated with a profit improvement of 4.2% of sales. This work indicates that altering how store managers are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

and growing difficulties for environmentalists in gaining control of ecosystems through land purchases led these organizations to reassess their opposing strategies. Their 1994 landmark agreement to jointly manage unique forested wetlands... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission and based on participation, shared values, and the... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

management control systems. It examines organizations that have authorized their dispersed units to make input and process decisions, organizations that have enabled only managers in a few units to experiment with different inputs and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system negatively reinforce one another, spiraling up out of control until they eventually drive the system outside of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

shareholders have lost an "enormous" amount of wealth? Designing regulatory systems is very tricky and could result in the "unintended consequences" of slippery CEO pay efforts, he observed. "I think society pays a price when we give... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

of Figure 1—a model that considers relationships among business problems; one specific appraisal factor (locus of control, or an individual's beliefs about their ability to control what happens in their life); coping behaviors (patterned... View Details
  • Web

Israel - Global Activities 2021

scale drip irrigation systems to customers. Netafim’s digital farming platform, Netbeat, was designed to “empower farmers to monitor, analyze, and control their irrigation systems,” but the firm, which was acquired by global conglomerate... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

called the Katy Prairie Conservancy, in collaboration with the Houston Flood Control District, local governments, and area developers on what he calls a sponge credit. The credit would allow, for instance, a town to mitigate the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

that will clearly define and equalize both private and social costs. In addition, he urges firms to take a hard look at their own operations and develop measures for pollution control and natural resource preservation as well as for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

search for adventure. These places gave a flavor of that.” There were more corporate transfers (to fresh vegetables, then fresh fruit) until 1983, when he landed what he saw as his dream role as Castle & Cooke’s international controller... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne