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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
linguistic, value)-are core to explaining field re-emergence. Although new or discontinuous technologies tend to displace older ones, legacy technologies that are seemingly "dead" can re-emerge, thrive, and even co-exist with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
that issuance is partly an attempt to arbitrage mispriced characteristics. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market, size, price, distress, payout policy, profitability, and industry. Our results provide a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
quarters following the buying pressure. These results provide new evidence that firm managers are able to identify and exploit overvalued equity. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364974 Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational cultures are varied, and participants have clashing or even antagonistic perspectives. I have studied more than a dozen cross-industry innovation projects, among them the creation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size, wherein it was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
stage can continue to deliver the resources, capabilities, and platforms needed to fuel the emerging opportunities of the future. This business lifecycle view of innovation requires new leadership and organizational models and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
recreates itself in response to new technologies and consumer needs, this major player is considering focusing on its principal business of concert booking and related revenue or moving forward with its efforts to take advantage of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard Business School Case 312-070 A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as deputy managing director to turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
paper explores the effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
Podcast with: Bharat Anand Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 17 min., 15 sec. Directors of Dow Jones & Co. this week accepted Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion, $60-per-share bid for the company and the jewel in the crown, the Wall... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country level. This year, Groysberg... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
owners and actively engage with boards. To start, in the nomination and election process, shareholders could signal their support (endorsement, neutrality, or nonendorsement) for candidates the board puts forth and vote accordingly. If... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace