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- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
to write and teach in a way that helps people develop an intuition for looking into the future clearly. If you only look into it through the lenses of the past, it's very hard. I have a theory of why we've had this spate of horrible... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
is why. Why is this country so driven by the attainment of wealth? If you go to other countries, there are people who work very hard, who have a nice standard of living, but they're not so focused on one thing. Q: What you're talking about raises complicated issues. Do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
real interest rate, compared to the standard 0.3 percent, and was announced as "the best option in the market" for saving. Groups were randomly assigned to one of the three savings options and managed by the Chilean microfinance View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought Theory predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
resources in the ongoing accumulation of scientific knowledge. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2478627 October 2014 Research Policy 'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
to 30 engineers. This initiative was very successful, but the firm then found itself with a lack of leadership skills at all levels of the organization to manage a company of a much larger size, growing by a factor of 10 over 10 years.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Alzheimer's, MS, and Huntington's) and do so by encouraging collaboration among researchers in the HMS community. When Ivinson takes the helm in 2001, he finds a dysfunctional center with little organization or structure. In addition, he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
identity. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these relationships. We call for a new direction in socialization theory examining how both organizations and employees benefit by encouraging... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the one hand, arguments based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett