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  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

  Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

years to become sufficiently established to operate as an independent entity. Yousry Makar, HFHE's national director, faces several key issues. How can he ensure that as HFHE's partnership network grows, his own office and staff can View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

pay-for-performance is an opportunity to make it more fair. They think they can outperform whatever pay they get; they usually assume they will benefit in terms of higher pay. In his working paper co-authored with Mark D. Cannon of Vanderbilt University, Promise and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

mechanical watchmaking industry had rematerialized to become the world’s leading exporter (in monetary value) of watches. This study reveals the process and mechanisms associated with technology reemergence, i.e., the resurgence of substantive and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

regions and major countries, who previously reported to the head of international, now report directly to the CEO, putting seven non-Americans on the executive committee. In another important milestone,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171265 When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Under increased pressure to report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Shaped by—the Internet By: Greenstein, Shane, Avi Goldfarb, and Chris Forman Abstract—The first 15 years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

short-seller report alleging that Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, was using fraudulent accounting and paying bribes to secure business. Evergrande's stock plummeted, and Value Partners, which had a sizable holding... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

sustaining an innovative organization? A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren't. “Conventional leadership won't get... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

what can the website do to generate and sustain bribe reporting on a scale that can have an impact? There are also issues with the credibility of self-reports and concerns that the model can be hijacked to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns and trading volume at the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

IR group, the cases document how both companies share many best practices in IR principles, such as the goal of getting managers directly in contact with investors, the need for consistency in reporting over time, and the desire to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

activities aimed at reshaping the organizational context, including a redefinition of roles and reporting relationships as well as new approaches to monitoring, measurement, and compensation. These four processes represent critical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

regions. Especially informative was the issue of bureaucratic risk. Although interviewees in both regions reported having to dedicate significant time to navigating government regulation, interviewees in South Asia frequently View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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