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- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
activity between strategic (operating firms) and financial (private equity) acquirers. What are the economic factors that drive either financial or strategic buyers to dominant positions in M&A activity?... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
from these temporal inconsistencies, positing that the "should" self dominates during the prediction and recollection phases but that the "want" self is dominant during the critical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
who are at the very top of the ability distribution (non-superstars), react positively to increased competition from superstars. For them, we find some evidence of increased effort and no increase in errors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have a significant bargaining effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
part on his former role as CEO of a highly respected S&P 500 U.S. corporation. He makes clear his position by asserting that boards' almost single-minded devotion to shareholder returns may be an important cause of the recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
U.S. companies spent a staggering $285 billion on advertising in 2006, according to Advertising Age. That's a lot of dollars and expectations being handed to advertising managers to generate returns. But do marketing managers allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President AI Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
majority owner, and Life Technologies (Life), a major manufacturer of sequencing equipment and services, was a minority owner. By the end of the year the CEO of Claritas Genomics, Dr. Patrice Milos, had to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Hot Chicken Takeover
By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details
Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
Kerr, William R., Manjari Raman, and Olivia Hull. "Hot Chicken Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 819-078, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
research and shoring up the weakest, all competitors' products take on the same characteristics. As she puts it, "Meanwhile, the very instruments that these managers are relying on to establish and reinforce... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” Place women in powerful View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2024
- White Paper
Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice
By: Matthew Sigelman, Joseph B. Fuller and Alex Martin
Sigelman, Matthew, Joseph B. Fuller, and Alex Martin. "Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice." White Paper, Burning Glass Institute, February 2024.
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
will come only from a systemic, well-choreographed approach to creating positive change. This insight was clear at a symposium of leaders from business, labor, government, the media, and academia that... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Timberland's sponsorship of City Year events and City Year–organized projects for Timberland employees—that made clear their mutual interest in making a positive impact on society. By the third, or... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry