Comment Letters - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

Sopory. Nisar Moosa called them "bribes." Imelda Bickham commented that "Time and again, I've seen people get the bonuses, only to leave the organization shortly afterwards." As R. Jennings put it, "Without a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

of qualities that it wants to see in its students." (Umar Khalid); and 4) suggesting that "letters of recommendation ... comment on the applicant's exercise of leadership or judgement in an ethical situation." (Jasper Ho)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have reached a set of conclusions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later acknowledged many encounters with sexist... View Details