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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • February 2020
  • Case

Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water

By: John D. Macomber and Carla Larangeira
Private companies were being turned to for potable water in the world’s megacities due to impacts of climate change including droughts and flooding. Mexico City had endured several water-related crises, with its population suffering from floods, droughts, water... View Details
Keywords: Water Supply; Water Management; Finance; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Business and Government Relations; Latin America; Mexico
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  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

taking the subject as given, they explore it as politically constituted. If “the market” is neither a discrete phenomenon nor marginal to human experience, then basic structures of governance become important. Rather than assuming that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

Communities: When Locals Re-import Exported Ideas Authors:Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby, and M. Sengul Publication:Organization Studies (forthcoming) Abstract The circulation of ideas across academic communities is central to academic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

corporate governance structure tailored to the firm. Q: What should CEOs be thinking about in terms of better leveraging their legal resources? Are new organizational structures needed to support this? Better training for both managers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

into inefficient local markets that face capital scarcity, absence of downside protection, and lack of differentiation. The illegal industry grows The devastating consequence is that the unregulated cannabis market continues to thrive as... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

work-from-anywhere companies adjust compensation to reflect the local cost of living, while others don’t. Helping work-from-anywhere succeed Despite those frictions, the movement is gaining momentum. Choudhury outlined three ways View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • March 2022
  • Case

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Government and Politics; Knowledge; Knowledge Dissemination; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Networks; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Demographics; Diversity; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

was the high cost of implementing these programs, together with political constraints that prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. The second was the reluctance of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Psychology and Financial Fragility By: Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

multinationals and local contenders. Palepu and Khanna provide a playbook for assessing emerging markets' potential and for crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. They explain how to spot institutional voids in developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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