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- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
gauged by monitoring nearly 1 million reader reviews using, in part, supervised machine learning in addition to searching for keywords such as “original,” “creative,” “surprisingly clever,” “innovative,” and “unexpected.” The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
experiences and perspectives, to focus on what opportunities exist outside the core business. Ask them to think about new revenue streams for the short term and long term. Challenge them to think outside the box. You may also want to consider View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
50 percent. This allowed the retailers to break even with just one or two rentals. Monitoring and technology, however, were key to the implementation, and these had to be introduced by a third company, Rentrak. Rentrak filled a niche... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
literature. And if she had to wait for a teller, she could pass the few minutes in line watching television news monitors or electronic stock tickers. What that customer probably wouldn't have realized was that all of these new services... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
were, in turn, more likely to cheat than those who weren't primed to think outside the box. Creative people are more likely to cheat in part because their creativity helps them to come up with ingenious explanations to justify their unethical behavior. The Learning... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
per week most of them reported monitoring their work while not actually working: 70 percent admitted to checking their smartphone each day within an hour after getting up, and 56 percent did so within an hour before going to bed. Weekends... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
but they will inform the process by asking questions like "How do we keep suppliers from accessing the payroll data?" Just as companies keep an eye on their equipment and supplies by conducting scheduled audits and random spot checks, so should they View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
however, most boards have focused on CEO succession, giving short shrift to systematic leadership development. After all, there was little risk of a calamity occurring if the board didn't monitor the leadership pipeline. There was also... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
provided but to augment and expand their offerings. Telemedicine is a terrific example of this. Many health care providers have already moved to virtual visits and ramped up new types of services such as remote-patient monitoring using... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 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
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
Please tell us about your initiative to create a joint center between Harvard and Yale to monitor corruption. What will its mission be and how will it operate? A: In many countries corruption accusations are used politically. Thus, the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
and how to more carefully monitor (and when necessary ride herd on) the partners on whom their virtual model depends. And they need to drive this process deep into their supply and production chains. One useful framework for accomplishing... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
bridging. We conclude by highlighting fruitful avenues for cross-disciplinary dialogue in the hope of promoting future research on emerging markets and defining the next frontier of institutional theory in organizational analysis. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
investigates the press's role as a monitor or "watchdog" for accounting fraud. I find that the press fulfills this role by rebroadcasting information from other information intermediaries (analysts, auditors, and lawsuits) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
hospitals and governments. Separately, Medtronic is using its remote monitoring capabilities to track people with coronavirus in their homes. (Full disclosure: I am a former chair and CEO of Medtronic). Adam Schechter, LabCorp CEO, and... View Details