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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral misconduct. Our findings indicate that to reduce ethical dissonance, individuals use a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense that it isn't important—most CEOs will tell you that their ability to inculcate values and mission into the DNA of a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Along with identifying a primary customer, you must also define your core values in a way that ranks the priority of shareholders, employees, and customers. Value statements that are lists of aspirational View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
(Studies 3 and 4), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes did not occur in the case of honest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Khanna: There are many reasons why you can have the rug pulled out from under your feet in developing countries. You have capricious behavior on the parts of opportunistic people, if there are no checks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
extraordinarily difficult and controversial management task." And therein lies a big problem, because how effective an organization is at making high-quality decisions consistent with its mission View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: ConceptCafe] Related Reading: Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager? The Better Way to Forecast the Future Working Paper: CEO Behavior and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen corporate sector investment and employment activity. These corporate reactions follow both Senate and House... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
that escalate anxiety in high achievers and the unproductive behaviors you turn to for relief. Then adopt practices that give you the courage to "do the right things poorly" before "doing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
upgrading its management techniques. Hoping to spur employees to develop ideas for bettering the company’s performance, the firm launched a system in which workers who put forth ideas were recognized with small sums of money. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis