Publications

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

have a sufficiently deep understanding of operational details. Most operations—both within the firm and in the supply chain—are rife with "hidden" information and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

plan and then staging commitments and implementation to reduce uncertainty while building a sustainable business. Established firms must adopt a similar approach to risk View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

08 May 2015
News

Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies

Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has... View Details

September 2010 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel

By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani

The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Steel Industry; India

01 Jun 2008
News

America the Difficult

destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of investment obstacles? Part of the answer may lie precisely in how these obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

U.S. inventors can be refined down to the 1992 Chinese share of IBM's inventors in Silicon Valley working in semiconductors. This exceptional detail, especially within individual firms and schools, allows us... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

May 2001
Supplement

Mike Levett, CEO Old Mutual

By: Tarun Khanna

Discusses issues related to the transformation of Old Mutual from a mutual company to a stock corporation, and from a South African insurer to a global financial institution. Emphasis is on understanding effects of South African institutional context. View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; South Africa

February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
Case

SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool

By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn

The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India

February 1987 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Polysar Limited

By: Robert L. Simons

Canada's largest chemical company produces and markets butyl rubber in two divisions, each treated as a profit center. The new plant in the North American Division operates below capacity resulting in a significant volume variance and an operating loss. The European... View Details

Keywords: Loss; Profit; Financial Management; Volume; Performance Capacity; Financial Statements; For-Profit Firms; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Rubber Industry; Canada

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

paper "The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving," coauthored with Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta. It describes how broadcast search was used with 166 distinct scientific problems from the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

firms (Guillet de Monthoux, 2004) and as conceptual lenses through which we can more completely understand organizations (Strati, 1999). In this article, we survey, discuss, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2009
Teaching Note

Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (C): Integrating Gillette (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird

Teaching Note for [309032]. View Details

Keywords: Integration; Mission and Purpose; Value; Problems and Challenges; Transition; Business Units; Governance Controls; Multinational Firms and Management; Consumer Products Industry