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- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
literature on the role of financial frictions in macroeconomics, this paper suggests that time-variation in expected returns to credit-market investors can be an important driver of economic fluctuations. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
securing a better price for a service should learn to haggle more. Israeli points to research that suggests one reason women have lower salaries than men for similar positions is because they are less likely to negotiate. “What that View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)-the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of interest, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
empirically grounded assessment of what the other side(s) actually will do. An extensive negotiation analytic literature has developed, often making the traditional assumption of a well-specified and fixed situation for analysis. Relaxing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
leadership means understanding the emotions of leaders and followers. Brain science is making me question much of the literature I've read on leadership." These comments call for the question: Is there really a formula for great... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level, and... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
the literature I have seen. Obviously, it will depend on the range of services to be delivered and the nature of capabilities a firm already possesses. Q: Your research covered several different industries. Did your findings vary by... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
they go beyond earlier research to look at the broad context of call center service delivery. "Although much literature has recently been written about various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," write... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan (The Evolving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
notion for Williams, who stopped work on his Ph.D. in English literature at Princeton in the late 1970s when an IBM executive recruited him for a sales position. “There were no teaching jobs at the time,” explains Williams, who worked at... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
appraisals. There is an overriding contradiction at the center of the Bank's approach to public participation. On the one hand, Bank literature and policy statements are replete with testimonials to the importance of participation and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Martínez-Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
study of business and the global poor. In recent years, there has been ample evidence, both in the literature and in capital markets, of the ability of leading microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America and Asia, to generate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel