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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
narrower span. She must focus on compliance with standard operating procedures, and she is monitored through detailed input and process measures. The span of influence. The third span corresponds to the width of the net that an individual... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
board's vehicle to monitor financial reporting. However, neither the audit committee nor the board is a guarantor and neither has an obligation to ensure perfect accounting or disclosure. They must use reasonable efforts to ensure... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
discriminate. During the time the researchers investigated, MLB had installed cameras pointed at the strike zone in a third of ballparks as a way of monitoring umpires' accuracy. They found that when cameras were present, umpires made... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
productivity, because productivity involves so many different factors. Among the nine foundations for a healthy building (see graphic) is “security,” a term the authors expect will take on a broader meaning in a post-pandemic world. Building security will involve View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
real estate. Important signals for potential future crisis Policymakers should monitor firm credit behavior in more detail, the authors advise. The findings also raise the question of whether there should be limits on leverage ratios for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
age and with it comes a price: privacy. If monitoring is a good way to provide security, so be it." Have we become so accustomed, however gradually, to the idea of oversight that surveillance in the name of transparency is a mere... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
"Investing in Latin America, or in emerging markets, has simply not paid off," he said. Investors are also jittery over a lack of monitoring and transparency of public companies and the fact that in many countries, the rights of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Supply chain auditors provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by insurance companies does not show outperformance, but higher volatility of realized returns. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2065841 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those that create incentives to monitor directors. We examine Mexico's banking system, 1888-1913, in which there was widespread related lending. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
from a distance because they have reliable, local partners to advise and monitor the new venture." In their paper, Stuart and Sorenson posit that these ties are more likely to form between VC firms in the context of certain events,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently analyze company databases daily for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
use of remote patient monitoring services grows—driven by health care limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic—clinicians, payers, and patients face important questions regarding the volume, value, and appropriate use of this care... View Details