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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
note describes the Congruence Model, a method by which an organization can assess whether its building blocks (critical tasks, formal organizational arrangements, people, and culture) are aligned (congruent) with its strategy. The model postulates that misalignments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. CEO succession is a process taking many years, not an event that takes place shortly before a transition. It reflects the way a company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Ventures By: Lee, Matthew, and Laura Huang Abstract—Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
ensuring a movie's success overseas is to ensure its success in the U.S. Even though foreign box office revenues are now often higher than domestic revenues, a movie's performance in the U.S. remains a key driver of what happens overseas.... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
product, BBA and the client could go back and forth for several more iterations. This represents a huge problem because clients often expect BBA to get the flavor right the first time, or within two or three iterations. To make matters... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
theoretical models emphasizing the role of managerial myopia. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607 Does Individual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
are less informed. The main reason is that price information leads user expectations to be more responsive and therefore amplifies the effect of price reductions. Platforms with more market power benefit because higher responsiveness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
doesn’t mean 32. It means that there are no expectations that people will work on Fridays unless they want to. The goal is to offer people the flexibility and choice as to how they spend their time. A policy like this doesn’t get far... View Details
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generously? The second story stems from a conversation I had while on vacation in the Caribbean over Spring Break—where I half expected to run into some of you, to be honest. Over the course of a few days I struck up a friendship with the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run stock market and operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
seniors—a parent, an in-law. Well over 50 percent of workers report they have some caregiving obligation. The question becomes: Do the terms and conditions of their employment and the nature of that obligation mesh? A lot of traditional View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
self-made products. Participants saw their amateurish creations—of both utilitarian and hedonic products—as similar in value to the creations of experts and expected others to share their opinions. Our account suggests that labor leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details