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- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
responding more quickly and effectively to the pandemic than their government was, demonstrating the faith that consumers have in their brands and the companies that stand behind them. 86 percent of surveyed consumers view their brands as... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater relative female entry rates even after controlling for the focal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13
whether, when, and for which type of customer the introduction of a new channel helps and hurts sales in existing channels. Our framework separates short- and long-run effects by analyzing underlying channel capabilities. It suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
together. That work is as important as inspiring others. In fact, it is a precondition for doing so.” Principles and practices: Know why you’re communicating. For each communication “event,” ask yourself: What are your goals? What effects... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
other colleagues published an experimental study showing that organizations can encourage honest reporting on financial documents—for example, expense reports or tax forms—simply by moving the signature line to the top of the form so that... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Performance assessment. Educate managers about gender biases that can influence evaluation decisions. Assess the criteria managers use to rate performance, and eliminate ambiguous, vague, and malleable standards. Promotion and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
including the yield rates at various schools; how many applicants they accept of those who apply; of those who accept, how many actually attend; and what is happening to the total enrollments. It was a big surprise to see a hollowing out... View Details
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
an individual at the 99th income percentile, the effective tax rates on SMB and HML, respectively, are 7 and 15 times greater than the tax View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
tax (VAT). Corporations will face a considerably lower rate, will not be allowed to deduct interest payments, and will be allowed to expense investments. The easiest way to understand that is: Because all business-to- business... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26
on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal elasticity is one-third, optimal capital income View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
is down, therefore basket size is down—so everybody in the mall is affected by traffic being down. If you have two or three major traffic-driving tenants in trouble, this affects the entire mall. This then creates a domino effect in the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
created as tax revenues fail to keep up with expenditures. At some point, one rarely experienced in the United States, investors may become unwilling to fuel deficits with further loans. The result: a government’s credit View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16 days, according to the World... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Value Added Tax Authors:Pomeranz, Dina Abstract Tax evasion generates billions of dollars of losses in government revenue and creates large distortions, especially in developing countries. A growing, mostly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India. With each successive rapid... View Details