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January 2020
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Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and... View Details

Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Employees; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance

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January 2021
Exercise

E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer

By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn

The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for... View Details

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Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Contracts; Theory; Business Ventures

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March 2014
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Private Interaction Between Firm Management and Sell-Side Analysts

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Although sell-side analysts often privately interact with managers of publicly traded firms, the private nature of this contact has historically obscured direction examination. By examining a set of proprietary records compiled by a large-cap NYSE traded firm, I offer... View Details

Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Management; Interpersonal Communication

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July 2004
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Determinants of Control System Design in Divisionalized Firms

By: Margaret A. Abernethy, Jan Bouwens and Laurence van Lent

We investigate two determinants of two choices in the control system of divisionalized firms, namely decentralization and use of performance measures. The two determinants are those identified in the literature as important to control system design: (1) information... View Details

Keywords: Design; Organizational Design; Business Divisions; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation

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Sep 2012
Keynote Speech

Modularize—Allocate—Protect: How Firms Profit from Open Modular Systems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

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06 Jun 2012
News

Trade secrets of oldest family firm in US

30 Jan 2009
News

KKR's Kravis Says Buyout Firms Face More Regulation

29 Jun 2009
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Firm Offers Blueprint for Makeover in a Spinoff

07 Sep 2010
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U.S. tech firms shop abroad to avoid taxes

29 Sep 2023
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Five Questions with Stuart Gilson: Creating Firm Value

11 Feb 2019
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Research: When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

18 Sep 2019
News

Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm

Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the CEO of the Pampered Chef and... View Details

2008
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy

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