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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
funding from a Series A round. She needed to build up sales and marketing; she also wanted to invest in her product, which was already popular in the VC market but was increasingly gaining traction in other markets. Sales and marketing had struggled, meanwhile, after a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2414478 Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Wesley Brandi Abstract—We examine online affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of governance on the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time offers, and weather. Today the company is hiring again and recently closed deals with Bed Bath & Beyond,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
been hired as the first non-founding CEO, taking over from the founder-CEO of a tight-knit founding team. Trachtman had first taken over from a mother and son team, then from two brothers, then from a wife and husband team, and now from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus should be on retraining current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
when to hire them and in what parts of the world; and determines how to develop, compensate, and motivate them, along with how to form them into project teams and manage the process in a cost effective manner. This case also provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
culture as the primary cause of the disaster. Drawing on public sources, this case traces the circumstances surrounding the accident, including not only the role of BP, but also of the two principle subcontractors hired to actually do the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
now protect these traditionally underrepresented groups from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion. Meanwhile, political correctness has reset the standards for civility and respect in people's day-to-day interactions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne