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- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
We find clear evidence that (1) bonuses enhance productivity, (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high productivity of the best performers even after attaining quotas, and (3) sales people exhibit present bias consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that there are governance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and dif cult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference, we introduce a framework to help researchers understand the complementary value of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. Each of the book’s nineteen case studies View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
and to Tactics Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart Abstract The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates, and how it creates value for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Europe Research Center, which had already cooperated with me on the Total case, if we could take a closer look at BP. Beyersdorfer: During the case interviews, MacLeod, a former financial analyst, presented his project to us. He believed... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our analysis View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
presents special strategic and tactical challenges. (See the sidebar "Linked Negotiations" for descriptions of three categories of such talks.) This article focuses on "birds in the bush"—situations in which, like Jim,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached maturity with proven, unambiguous concepts and tools? Or is it still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
corporate governance in India and, indeed, in Asia. In our research, we ask why it is that Infosys developed a reputation for being committed to shareholder value creation in a country, India, where corporate governance has, historically,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
this article, the author suggests that tech pioneers would do well to heed a lesson he’s gleaned from his research in the developing world: For long-term success, companies must invest in the surrounding ecosystem. The author presents... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the welfare implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
increased," write Roth, Fréchette, and Ünver. Their paper, "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls," is available for download [pdf]. According to the authors, "The present paper... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
we show that when consumers are forward-looking, the value of concealment is context-dependent; we present insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to a positive vs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
P., and Julian Zlatev Abstract—Biases influence important decisions, but little is known about whether and how individuals try to exploit others’ biases in strategic interactions. Choice architects—that is, people who present choices to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Bibliographies in Management Abstract The goal of this annotated bibliography on technology and innovation is to organize and present the most important literature relevant to a scholar seeking to understand and advance the field. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
production of the primary product in order to capture more value in the by-product market. In the latter case, all waste is converted into by-product. Because the two markets are linked through the firm's (proportional) production of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace