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  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Matt Thurmond

class, you see a specific business situation; you have to apply a multitude of theories and ideas to come to a decision, an action. For me, it means creating a habit of informed decision-making. And it develops my communication skills.... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies status and its effects on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2012
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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
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This paper develops... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts managers will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Present, and Reconstructing for the Future Authors:Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel Levinthal, and William Ocasio Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader " Carnegie School"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The Road to Impact

applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former US Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought that an View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

It simply doesn't fit experience on the ground. Without a broadly accepted theory of governance performance to provide a standard against which organizations can evaluate and improve their practices, every... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

this case to develop theory about how the operational and cultural conditions of an organization can disrupt conventional masculine interaction patterns and identity-construction processes by decoupling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne