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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
management control systems. It examines organizations that have authorized their dispersed units to make input and process decisions, organizations that have enabled only managers in a few units to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
processing techniques that have eliminated or greatly reduced hazardous waste contaminants. In recent years, for example, the company has invested $100 million to improve fundamental paper pulp processes and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
climate-friendly technologies for controlled environment crop production are demonstrated and tested. Offal is a problem for ranchers who sell direct-to-consumer because it is frequently sent to rot in landfill, with the cow’s hide and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
(MBA 1969)—to careers in business. “He taught by the case method, and made sure we had real-life experiences,” Lambert says, recalling a field trip to General Motors in Detroit. “Professor Fitzhugh saw business as a way for the black community to View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
available today does not address the needs of senior job seekers. Building a Winning Career sets out a proven process that has worked for hundreds of senior executives, delivering superior results for those considering their next career... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers and social media. Many of these things are out of View Details
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
School in 1963 I have been trying to find ways to teach about the political, social, economic, and cultural environment of business, the context that shapes corporate purpose, provides corporate legitimacy, and in many ways controls... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
instituting processes that encourage creativity and new ideas. At 3M, for example, the "15 percent rule" allows professionals to spend up to 15 percent of their time on independent projects of their own choosing. As intrapreneurship... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the Corporation, a book about corporate power, particularly as it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
the company had lost its "human touch" in the process of professionalizing and modernizing to capitalize on the fantastic market opportunities that had opened up in Spain. Some felt that the work was now too structured and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
this process a unanimous consensus emerged: business schools could no longer hope that their students would recognize the social significance and relations of business once they became managers. The schools themselves were ultimately... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely slaughtered and View Details