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  • 23 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

change in the social awareness of investors in the past decade. "The number of investors who care about this kind of performance has increased dramatically in the last 10 years," Serafeim says. "Right now those investors have about $5... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

energy and potential of their people to deliver superior economic and social value. Book: http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/12957-HBK-ENG The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective

Keywords: by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 17 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

    Innovating for Sustainability

    Every major company is grappling with the meaning and application of sustainability in relation to its geographic location, industry and business model. Similarly, more and more institutional investors are incorporating sustainability into their... View Details

      Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship

      To be competitive, companies must grow innovative new businesses. Corporate entrepreneurship, however, isn't easy. New ventures face innumerable barriers and seldom mesh smoothly with well-established systems, processes, and cultures. Nonetheless, success requires a... View Details

      • October 2014 (Revised March 2015)
      • Case

      Integrated Reporting at Aegon

      By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Sydney Ribot and Michael Krzus
      In 2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting—a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering medium- to long-term issues, stakeholder opinions, and the relationship between material financial and nonfinancial... View Details
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      • 06 Oct 2011
      • What Do You Think?

      How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

      Moneyball Analytics play a greater role in preparation for management? If so, what should it replace? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article In the past we've discussed the importance of adding View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 28 Nov 2012
      • What Do You Think?

      Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

      Summing Up Let's Pay for Performance But How? In spite of its naysayers, pay for performance still makes sense to most of us, according to those responding to this month's column. But there is a difference... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 23 Oct 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      The Strategy-Focused Organization

      and encouraged them after disappointing financial performance. But what had McCool seen? The poor financial performance was due to unusual external conditions that the employees could not control. The View Details
      Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
      • 17 Mar 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: March 17

      2011, Aegon adopted integrated reporting-a corporate reporting approach that sought to present company performance in a holistic light by considering medium- to long-term issues, stakeholder opinions, and the relationship between material... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Nov 2017
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

      questions about what model is best suited to the integration of nonfinancial concerns. Does the joint pursuit of commercial and social objectives require new ways of organizing? In this essay we argue that it does. Or at least—to put our... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 28 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

      families as well. Q: How can a CEO spot a dysfunctional or at least disintegrating culture? What should be the first steps to fixing the problem? A: A CEO in this situation should be tracking and managing by the numbers—the nonfinancial... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 03 Nov 2015
      • First Look

      November 3, 2015

      integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Apr 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      The High Risks of Short-Term Management

      volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives)... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
      • 06 Feb 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

      assessment system focused on organizational values. We find a counterintuitive result: the intervention drove even higher effort on dimensions of short-term financial performance associated with preexisting monetary incentives but did not... View Details
      • 23 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

      Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 20 Jul 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

      information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 26 Jul 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: July 26

      firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supplier reliability tracking is a process whereby customers use past supplier performance to build beliefs about supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 23 May 2011
      • Op-Ed

      Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

      integrated reporting by companies and a high level of investor interest in the respective nonfinancial performance metric. Companies and investors in these countries are on the vanguard of integrated... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim