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number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores. "Each year there is more View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the economy. On the demand side, it requires people to change their behavior. On the supply side, a country needs to mass-produce masks and efficiently distribute them. South Koreans were familiar with wearing masks from their experience... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

[portfolio] firms more efficient.” “The growing success of digital transformation over the past decade has allowed PE firms to develop newer approaches to value creation. Digital technologies allow PE portfolio companies to gain both from top-line growth as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
Case

UNext: Business Education and e-Learning

By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine

UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Competition; Disruptive Innovation; Performance Efficiency; Higher Education; Learning; Education Industry

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13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.—... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

03 Apr 2007
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the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field that took in $25 million in revenue in 2005. Revenues for 2006 were projected to reach $40 million. This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2010
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pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
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substantial information about GMO products, they positively affect approval rates of GMOs by threatening the reputation of the regulatory agency. Our study further shows that firm and product uncertainty increases the impact of the social... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this year in a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

achieve organizational efficiency ... (by) highly motivated and committed staff with the passion to overachieve." Further, it is thought to work best in cultures where people have the latitude on occasion to fail (or as Mariana van... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Jun 2010
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of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock, and discounting.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

price. More recently, Mohan, Norton, and Deshpandé have been exploring the idea of actively marketing low- pay-ratio information to consumers. In one experiment, consumers shopped for flat-screen televisions. Along with the common "Energy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Sep 2007
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for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2008
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significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting, their purpose and structure, and discusses their impact on financial View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2012
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situations, majority voting can have a "dark side," i.e., result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. We develop a model to predict how two types of social information shape View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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