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  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

that believe their sustainability efforts are not being fully rewarded by the market. In particular, the research shows companies with overall good performance in their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs can increase their market value by carefully... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

for Competitive Advantage, edited by Jeffrey Word. Jossey-Bass, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470528346,descCd-tableOfContents.html Workplace Peers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our results show the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

community-based organizations. COVID-19 has disrupted GPP’s school-based activities, which include teacher training and the Teen Advisory Council, a program that supports students as they educate their peers about the dangers of... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

sustained, recipients will flee these threats or otherwise reshape their network to attenuate the negative psychological effects of the threat. Analyzing four years of peer feedback and social network data from an agribusiness company in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group, and non-financial rewards, significantly increases savings in a new savings account. The number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for the proposal; (iii) non-targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing when a peer firm was targeted by a proposal. With respect to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

for managers who do not have intimate knowledge of the content of their work. This emphasis on demonstration of capabilities is even more critical in the open source community. One earns the respect of peers by demonstrating skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

comparison to its peer institutions, the World Bank has been relatively responsive to calls for greater accountability. This report examines accountability mechanisms at three basic levels in the institution: (1) project, (2) policy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

system of a large federal credit union, we delineate four important constraints likely to affect the lending process: (1) limited attention (or distraction), (2) task-specific human capital, (3) peer perception, and (4) learning over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

frameworks to decide exactly what they're going to do, what decisions they're going to make, what things they want to monitor and oversee, and also the areas in which they want to offer advice and counsel to their CEO. So given that fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational technology development... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

factors affecting companies' decisions on incentive provision, as well as showing that the impact of monetary incentives on carbon emissions remains significant even when we control for potential selection bias in our sample. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

that someone hasn't published in a prestigious economic journal is just not that relevant. We must legitimize that concept among our peer institutions." From its original conception, Herzlinger knew that the conference needed to be global... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

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