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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Further, participants lacking these skills are able to compensate for more imprecise information from Boolean searches through superior reading and information sifting skills. Our study contributes to literature streams on artificial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation consultants suggest that a primary objective of rTSR is to filter shocks unrelated to managerial performance, following the informativeness principle, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers, which is anticipated to be paid for from the revenues from developing and selling market-rate housing. While the primary concerns are cost of construction, cost of capital, and revenues from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
TDC's shares to force compulsory redemption under Denmark law. However, a pension fund that held 5.5% of the outstanding stock has rejected the offer. Should Nordic Telephone lower its 90% acceptance threshold and purchase TDC without a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
Case 815-042 The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets The production, valuation, and consumption of contemporary art are guided by cultural and economic forces that play out in primary and secondary markets. Artists seek the attention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54835 forthcoming Journal of Economics & Management Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
that recording moderately successful practices can be counter-productive, since doing so may inefficiently reduce employees' incentives to experiment. This "strong-form competency trap" forces firms into an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
protocol, and deportment comprise the visible tip, they might be linked to more deeply rooted, less obvious forces that are fully capable of sinking the ship. This working paper, through a questionnaire format—intended as an instrument to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811015-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is associated with better performance when it occurs naturally, but not when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
substantially fewer violations. With improved compliance, channel prices increase by 2% without loss in volume. The reduction in violations is particularly stark among authorized retailers with lower sales volume, those that previously... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne