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  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

of others, the manager has control and the leader does not. The manager can motivate with rewards and punishments, while the leader must win hearts and minds. Therefore, fear is a part View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin; Entertainment & Recreation

    The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

    There is a growing belief that scalable and low-cost AI assistance can improve firm decision-making and economic performance. However, running a business involves a myriad of open-ended problems, making it hard to generalize from recent studies showing that generative... View Details
    • 23 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Emerging Art of Negotiation

    preconception of how they expect it to go down. How such preconceptions, or what researchers call "mental models," actually control the outcome of a negotiation is... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

    By: Anette Mikes
    This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks

    By: Alyssa G. Anerson, Wenxin Du and Bernd Schlusche
    We show that the role of unsecured, short-term wholesale funding for global banks has changed significantly in the post-financial-crisis regulatory environment. Global banks mainly use such funding to finance liquid, near risk-free arbitrage positions—in particular,... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Financing and Loans
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents

    By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
    The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not from one cause alone but from the interaction of a combination of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Globalization; Risk Management; Boundaries; System Shocks
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    • 07 Oct 2019
    • News

    New Study Shows Adverse Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

    • 29 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist & Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
    • 17 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services
    • July 2022
    • Article

    The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality

    By: Antonya Marie Gonzalez, Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
    Attributions, or lay explanations for inequality, have been linked to inequality-relevant behavior. In adults and children, attributing inequality to an individual rather than contextual or structural causes is linked to greater support for economic inequality and less... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Behavior; Perception
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    • August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
    • Case

    Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama

    By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
    Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current... View Details
    Keywords: China; Legal Aspects Of Business; Corruption; Risk; Corporate Governance; Crime and Corruption; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Values and Beliefs; Private Equity; China
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    • October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 5: Building a Profit Plan

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading describes how to build a profit plan to reflect the strategy of a business in economic terms. After introducing the profit wheel, cash wheel, and ROE wheel, the module illustrates how to use a profit plan to assess the viability of different... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Profit Planning; Cash Flow Analysis; Asset Utilization; Return On Equity; Business Planning; Testing Strategy; Analyzing Strategic Alternative; Strategy; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Management Systems; Profit
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    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    energy policies and programs Stagflation cripples economy Environmental protection weakened Price controls Influence: Low 80 1980 19 Reaganomics Heavy defense and deficit spending Savings and Loan bailout Chrysler bailout Breakup View Details
    • May 2019
    • Article

    The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets

    By: Sugata Roychowdhury and Suraj Srinivasan
    Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the institutional stability, fortitude and direction necessary for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives.... View Details
    Keywords: Gatekeepers; Capital Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Effectiveness
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    • Article

    The Big Five Personality Traits, Material Values, and Financial Well-being of Self-described Money Managers

    By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Ravi Iyer and Ryan Howell
    Previous research has linked personality traits, material values, and money management to savings, debt, and compulsive buying. To extend previous research, four online surveys examined the Big Five personality traits and material values of those who manage their money... View Details
    Keywords: Values; Personality; Well-being; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Finance; Money
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    • 10 Oct 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Michael Bordo, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

    • 01 Oct 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

    Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The State of the Markets

    that the back end of the operation keeps pace with the front end to avoid the costly control issues that exist today." Looking ahead, Seifert sees the Internet as a force to be reckoned with in terms... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner