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- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
however, attached conditions to this course of action, typically involving some kind of financial penalty. For example, Walter Blass suggested "a negotiated skipping of his bonus, or stock options... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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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 legitimacy to empower as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
extraordinary amount of information at all levels and devote a great deal of resources to making sure that all employees are connected. All "herald a future in which the work of managers is performed less and less by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
being in second place, it’s a pretty good place to be.” Consumers end up paying more To study how pricing algorithms affect competition, MacKay and Brown collected detailed... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Starting a successful business is often considered the hardest thing entrepreneurs do—but growing an existing venture may be even more difficult. Many companies get stuck on a plateau that inhibits their ability to grow: a scale stopper.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages instead lead to lower effort with substantial targeting behavior. A reference-dependent theoretical framework suggests an explanation for this differential impact: when individuals place less value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
than ever before, says Paine. And boards now have the responsibility of continuously monitoring the culture and staying ahead of problems. “If you’re on a board, you should be asking: ‘Do we have adequate mechanisms in place View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
entrepreneurial venture. The paper, which offers a rare glimpse into an area where little consolidated data is available, is forthcoming in the journal Social Science & Medicine. "This study happens View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis Authors:Gustavo A. Del Angel, Stephen Haber, and Aldo Musacchio Abstract After the 1995 crisis, the Mexican banking system experienced significant changes in bank accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
case in each chapter illustrates key concepts and helps students place the material in the context of real-world practice. And deep integration with MyAccountingLab provides students numerous opportunities View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace