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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Senior Lecturer John Macomber grew up working for the George B.H.... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Fahlenbrach Publication:Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
concluded that alternative packaging solutions weren’t as green as they purported to be if they didn’t perform well in their main function: storing and preserving the food they contained. Recognizing they would need to use plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
High School, formed teacher teams to take on leadership responsibilities for the school, something that was relatively new in public education. The 40 or so BBC leaders to whom I spoke under Dyke's predecessor multiplied into the 400... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
banks to fail, including several relatively large ones. Not surprisingly, bank regulators responded by tightening credit standards and strengthening capital requirements. This worked well for the banking system. When the economy turned... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
analyzes the response of this wage to exogenous changes in the marginal revenue product of labor. The paper finds parameters for which the response of wages is modest relative to the response of employment, as appears to be the case in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
by building a strong & technically capable brand which is defensible vs. going to the larger retail side first. Technology/Operations: Beyond the development of battery chemistries for the India context, Log 9's methodical use of data to enhance battery View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
and high levels of press freedom. We further demonstrate that suppliers perform better when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious. Taken together, these findings suggest the importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
that ethnically Chinese firms in China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the performance of ethnically Chinese firms deteriorates over time. One hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
firm is doing relative to its peers. In essence, the stock price is a very public measure of the performance of the firm and its managers. The situation at private firms is typically very different. First,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish