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- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
tax avoidance activity. These "book-tax" gaps are shown to be larger when firms are alleged to be involved in tax shelters. OLS estimates indicate that the average effect of tax avoidance on firm value is not significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The Sopranos. Exit strategies are... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
resources, but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
of mercantilist system was, with a short time lag, a winner for all Japanese citizens, who were all able to raise their living standards; the income gap between the upper and lower quintiles was actually reduced to only 3.4 percent, the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
colleagues discuss how Random Coefficient Models (RCMs) can close the gap between theoretical and empirical research in strategy. The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance This study by... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
difficult tasks. Second, overestimation of ability by both men and women varies across categories. To understand these patterns, we develop a model that separates gender stereotypes from misestimation of ability related to the difficulty of the task. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
It's easy to run a company in an up market. OK, sort of easy. But a down market is something else again, and what a roller-coaster year the past year was, said six entrepreneurs in a panel discussion at the 2002 Dynamic Women in Business conference. Despite serious... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
observed gaps in the prescribing rates of new medicines,” according to the study. The second experiment evaluated the behaviors of 275 patients with hypertension. Patients viewed clinical trial evidence for drugs along with the percentage... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Virtual fitting-room technologies provide information about how a product fits a particular customer and promise to mitigate some of the frictions the information gap generates in the retailers’ supply chains. By implementing a series of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
underleveraged vehicle in reducing the rigor/relevance gap between business schools and the world of practice. Cases & Course MaterialsAkin Ongor's Journey Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 306-072 A retired bank CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
leaders constantly have new “teams” to manage. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the NFL, where an average player’s career lasts just over three years. For that reason, the generation gap between coach and players grows over time,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the credit gap in small-dollar loans—those under $250,000, which is the size that 76 percent of small businesses say they need—is very real. While new private sector players like online lenders can help in this segment, they will... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
needs are increasingly ignored by these firms, which now require large margins to support their burgeoning overhead. The low-end gap thus created offers fertile ground for startups to enter the market with innovative approaches... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
happy or saving the environment). Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that this effect was driven by differences in the size of the gap between participants' expectations and reality. Compared to those who pursued an abstractly framed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne