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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
available search-and-rescue, as well as no oil or chemical spills and no rust buckets allowed. By secure we mean no single nation has control or the ability to unfairly tax ships passing through. Reliable means having enough ocean-transport and sea-lane rules in place... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
contributes to the literature on behavioral strategy, and highlights unique challenges of starting a new firm in a nascent industry. Further, by identifying the mechanisms through which legitimation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691149135/ The Organization of Firms Across Countries... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other, but family... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
shed employees, assets, and noncore businesses. Often, these measures lead to the loss of valuable resources, alienation of key customers, and erosion of capabilities for the longer term. This makes the firm less competitive and probably... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
the College Avenue facility as a state-of-the-art ice-cream plant. Fifteen years later, the firm was on the verge of bankruptcy when Dreyer’s son, then in charge, sold it to key officers, including Ken Cook, who took over as president. It... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
allowances, low bank share prices, and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
unacceptable behavior in the offline world might be perfectly acceptable in the online world. For example, corporate norms and fear that the boss might find out prevent many employees from openly advertising themselves on the job market.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around Halle-Leipzig. Bundling together 50... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details