Attributions - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

There is no single "best" style of leadership nor one set of attributes in all situations. We look at the sources of constraints and at leadership as a sense of identity: Leaders do not require a formal position; rather,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

seven “C” attributes shared by effective coronavirus leaders. Calm. Your folks, your employees, your customers, your suppliers, are going to be looking to you as a leader to project a sense of calm through this difficult, uncertain... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

America, but during the first half of 2013, Porsche's sales increased by 31 percent, largely attributed to its growth with women drivers. The Cayenne and the Panamera four-door sedan have both been successful in attracting women to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

16 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

approach is for the government to delegate the management of investment promotion activities to the private sector. This approach often has the disadvantage that the private sector will not handle well the attributes of the task that are... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

against the wall of the office. But Gino attributes some of her productivity at UNC to the lack of an actual view to the outside. "After all, it is sunny very often in North Carolina," she smiles. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

performance of the market by making it more volatile and limiting its upside potential (via much larger amounts of short-selling). Most commentators about the market ignore this. When the market suffers big losses on a single day, they find some small piece of bad... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

of which applies to a particular attribute of an organization. "Intimacy is about leadership," Groysberg explains. "Interactivity is about channels. Inclusion is about content. And intentionality is about goals, vision, and the strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

Research Summary

The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

significance, and a legacy. Juggling all four at once is a trick that requires constant practice. People who fit our conventional notions of success display a lot of positive features, said Stevenson. But take a closer look and a positive View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

did Microsoft products fail to win more than 50 percent of these reviews. —Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack Putting this all together, we see that much of Microsoft's long-term success can be attributed to investments that have created... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

unusual to find stores from the same chain selling a product for different prices in different regions or online. Cavallo attributes this to the transparency afforded by the internet and customers’ concerns about fairness. “The web allows... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Oct 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect

Keywords: by Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo & Robert C. Merton; Construction; Real Estate

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

graduating or an experienced manager, the most critical global attribute is open-mindedness. There's a curse that Americans in particular face, in that they're born in the world's largest, richest, and most technologically developed... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

Ecuador and Bolivia, was more than triple the number reported, representing tens of thousands of losses that were never attributed to the pandemic. And the United States saw the highest number of unexplained deaths in 2020: a total of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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