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  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1997
  • Case

Peoria Engine Plant (A): (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Amy P. Hutton
Describes the cost control system used at an automobile engine plant for labor and overhead costs. The finance staff prepares daily, weekly, and monthly variance reports against budgets. Department supervisors, finance staff, and the plant manager discuss the use and... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cost Management; Financial Reporting; Performance Improvement; Budgets and Budgeting; Auto Industry
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  • April–June 2015
  • Article

It Doesn't Matter If Competitors Know Your Strategy

By: Frank V. Cespedes
It is difficult for people to implement what they don't understand. Yet, research indicates that, on average, more than 50% of employees in organizations say they do not understand their organization's strategy. Further, the percentage of people reporting ignorance of... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Sales
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  • 2007
  • Report

Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands

By: Michael E. Porter
Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against twenty years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high... View Details
Keywords: Economics; United States
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  • 23 Mar 2015
  • News

Business Icons Porter and Rivkin on Inequality: ‘It Undermines The American Dream’

  • 26 May 2014
  • News

How to Win the Lottery (Happily)

  • 01 Jul 2013
  • News

Directions for Directors

  • 27 Jan 2019
  • News

How Employers Can Help Caregivers For A Win-Win

  • Teaching Interest

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements

By: Suraj Srinivasan
This course provides hands-on experience in financial statement analysis. Students are exposed to tools of financial analysis, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues. By the end of the course, students become comfortable with using firms' financial... View Details
  • August 22, 2017
  • Article

Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Robert Marsh
This article reports the results of a survey of key performance indicators (KPIs) used by more than 800 sales groups across industries. The most common KPIs are closed deals and salesperson performance against quota, which, on average, firms measure monthly. But a... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Salesforce Management
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  • April 2016 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

"Doctor My Eyes"--The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (A)

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
In early 2010, senior partners at Warburg Pincus met to review a report on Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, the firm's largest investment at the time. Warburg Pincus had led a group of investors in acquiring Bauch & Lomb on October 26, 2007, taking the company private and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Governance; Buyout; Private Equity; Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Health Care and Treatment; Reports; Business Model; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • Research Summary

Sell-Side Analysts and Corporate Spinoffs

This study investigates the information content and accuracy of analyst reports written about companies that are about to undertake equity spinoffs.  This research is among the first to provide a detailed look at the extent to which analysts evaluate upcoming... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

  • 15 Dec 2005
  • News

Generosity Can Unite Us

  • 11 Jun 2021
  • News

It’s 2021. Why We Still Need to Write about Women in the Workplace and the Glass Ceiling

  • 16 Mar 2020
  • News

Keep Sanitizer Out of the Market's Invisible Hand

  • 13 Jul 2019
  • News

How Do The Very Wealthy Choose To Spend Their Time?

  • October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

New Century Financial Corporation

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Business Model; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • Article

The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton
Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details
Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking
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Accounting & Management - Doctoral

apply to the PhD in Business Administration and select Accounting as their area of study. Students work closely with faculty in the Accounting and Management Unit . Research here encompasses financial reporting and analysis and management... View Details