Responsibilities To Investors - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

was to improve corporate governance and restore the faith of investors, but many in the business world spoke out against SOX, viewing it as a politically motivated overcorrection that would lead to a loss of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

York Times Magazine in which Friedman opposed corporate philanthropy, arguing that corporations should let individual investors choose how to spend or give away their money. One can argue that both of these... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

likely to hear, "That's not my job," in a company where responsibility is not only accepted by individuals but also shared and delegated. Solid teamwork also becomes critical. In this more complex... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

equal sway in the media. “The solution can't be mandated solely by an organization.” As the authors suggest, the first two presentations, bias and underrepresentation, have tended to invite straightforward View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

all their attention on running the factory, while leaving IT concerns to others. Now, he affirmed, "IT is not something you can use as support to help get the 'real work' done; instead, it has become... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

have to have the market with you." Timing is everything, said Kapoor. The first time he sold Snapfish it was the right market but the wrong timing, and his investors didn't make any money. "We... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

feasible or desirable to think about changing firms themselves. Can firms create shared value? Can industries regulate themselves? What are the responsibilities of managers? Does "purpose" matter?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

In recent years, business schools and investors alike have been paying more attention to social entrepreneurs, those who create ventures with the primary goal of achieving positive social change. But most... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response... View Details

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind responsibility for many senior executives. Professor Cynthia A.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

Additionally, the need to balance creative thinking with accountability and responsibility was emphasized. This was a novel twist to the usually laudatory treatment that... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

the viewers' emotional response with the help of eye-tracking technology combined with facial expression analysis software. Evoking surprise proved to be the most effective way of capturing attention, while... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

Summing Up What Will Capitalism Require of Us in the Future? If one were to sum up the ideas in response to this month's column, it could be: Capitalism as we know it is here... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

silently shift in response to actions taken, even though no overt negotiation takes place. Of course, if costly misunderstandings are to be avoided, it's normally in the... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Why? Because his answers went straight to a central repository where they were aggregated with other customers' responses and used to measure overall market—not... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

choosing not to target firms that generate employment, for example, may erode investor confidence if they are found more likely to have accounting problems, leading View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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