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- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
leaders who are considered for teaching appointments actually qualify. He attributes this mainly to issues with “status and ego.” In my experience, the problem often was the inability to listen to what MBA students were really saying. I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral restraints is to infer an View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
stretches a worker in a new direction. Framing and bluffing. "This is one of the most creative attributes for obtaining stretchwork," O'Mahony notes. "People who are good at presenting their prior experience in a way that... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
agency by broadening it to include questions about positive duties. The second is examine the case for justifying these sorts of positive duties by attributing moral agency to business enterprises. Such duties are controversial because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
shipping model, according to Ngwe. Ngwe attributes the higher purchase totals to customers overshooting the minimum balance needed to qualify for free shipping, due to the extra time and effort required to hit it exactly. "Shoppers... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures the number of patient deaths... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
political conventions, but firms based in Olympics host cities started ramping up the philanthropy up to four years before the Games actually took place. Marquis attributes this to a combination of goodwill and good public relations.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
Dean's youthful Internet backing failed to generate enough votes at the polls. In the recent New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton's surprise win is attributable in part to her superior grassroots organizing there—the political... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
employees, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can promote operational flexibility, employee engagement, and tight strategic alignment. Groysberg and Slind have identified four elements of organizational conversation that reflect the essential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are natural—stereotypes provide a... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay $4,500 more in tax than a short person. One interpretation is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
"This is an intimately personal transaction, yet in many instances, people don't want to be involved with the ultimate suppliers. It's a market suited to intermediaries such as brokers, lawyers, and agents." The emphasis in donor profiles on intelligence and... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
discrete regime shifts in 1977 and 2000. The increase in bond risks after 1977 is attributed primarily to a shift in monetary policy towards a more anti-inflationary stance, while the more recent decrease in bond risks after 2000 is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne