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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders, yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Burton provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies
success of your social media strategy. Join relevant conversations with candidates of interest and put yourself in a better position to succeed. Create Awareness of your FirmObvious as it may seem, every... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
understandable, generalizable, and robust. The consulting leaders sustained their thought-leadership positions by creating an ecosystem with senior executives at pioneer corporations View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Jr., and other leaders to become larger-than-life figures; why society works the way it does, and what you can do to positively impact it, and... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Do Public and Private Firms Behave Differently? An Examination of Investment in the Chemical Industry
By: Albert W. Sheen
I compare the capacity expansion decisions of U.S. public and private producers of seven commodity chemicals from 1989-2006. I find that private firms invest differently, and more efficiently, than public firms. Specifically, private firms are more likely than public... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Chemicals; Investment; Public Ownership; Chemical Industry; United States
Sheen, Albert W. "Do Public and Private Firms Behave Differently? An Examination of Investment in the Chemical Industry." July 2011.
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract— Women's reluctance to negotiate is often used to explain the gender wage gap, popularizing the push for women to “lean-in" View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
about how to do “engineering” projects, about my ability to work with others to get things done, and about what it felt like to make good money and to be in an position to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
enjoys a positive VoC under general conditions. We conduct numerical simulations to study the magnitude of the VoC and find that it can be substantial—in our simulations, retailers that switched from a fixed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
“common practices,” and a set on which they do not, which we term “strategic.” We subsequently explore performance implications and find that the adoption of strategic sustainability practices is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
not only take a stance but make a compelling argument for their position sometimes led me to change my mind, and other times only reaffirmed my initial position. The key was that I was open to being... View Details
- September 2014
- Article
The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability
By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose
Haigh, Nardia, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability." Organization & Environment 27, no. 3 (September 2014): 223–241.
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Enterprise Press Spirituality, Robert Tribken suggests, can play an important role in our work lives. Our spirituality encourages us to turn toward God and the divine mystery and then, perhaps inspired,... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
real positive characteristics.” The future of venture capital sits in two sectors, Breyer predicted—artificial intelligence and China. This summer, Breyer and IDG Capital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
(Siko) Sikochi Abstract—We examine the influence of peer firms on trade credit policies of listed firms in the United States. We posit and find evidence that firms mimic their peers in formulating trade... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
finance, operations, information technology, and management to assume leadership positions in these organizations. Of course, the HBS professors were always engaging, and class... View Details
- March 2007
- Article
Gender Effects and Stock Market Reactions to the Announcement of Top Executive Appointments
This study uses Kanter's token status theory to link announcements of top executives to shareholder reactions, highlighting possible gender effects. Using a sample of top executive announcements from 1990 to 2000, our results show that investor reactions to the... View Details
- 2012
- Article
A Field Study on the Acceptance and Use of a New Accounting System
By: V.G. Narayanan, Ranjani Krishnan and Jamshed J. Mistry
This study examines the attitudes, use, and acceptance of a new accounting system in a pharmaceutical corporation that switched from an Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that... View Details
Narayanan, V.G., Ranjani Krishnan, and Jamshed J. Mistry. "A Field Study on the Acceptance and Use of a New Accounting System." Journal of Management Accounting Research 24 (2012): 103–133.
- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
technology markets—cybersecurity. In spite of positive industry trends, there were some nagging concerns that this might be a risky time in the public capital markets. The company had just completed an acquisition, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
segregation, is just one example of the positive and noteworthy impact social science research can have on the world beyond academia. But many researchers today have trouble communicating with non-academic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel