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  • 04 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

investor expectations are strongly negatively correlated with model-based expected returns. The evidence is not consistent with rational expectations representative investor models of returns. September 2013 Management Science The Stock Selection and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Cynthia Carroll

mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

diverse product lines in health care, computers, printers, and scientific instruments, he notes, because it has established autonomous divisions around the globe with clear performance targets and incentives to grow. Other innovative... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • May 2017
  • Case

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley
Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Public Sector; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Governance; Government Administration; Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Experience and Expertise; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Recruitment; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Attitudes; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

tolerating poor quality and irregular delivery. Economic changes in the last decade of the twentieth century introduced an outlook in Russian business which might be viewed as a form of "market orientation," particularly among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Publication:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

employed in a study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This paper analyzes our findings within the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

hot topic lately. Is venture philanthropy a good idea? A: The first generation of venture philanthropy had its roots in the success of venture capital. Investors were carried away by the notion of gaining economic returns on their... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his mom View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

demographics, they are increasingly comfortable with some of the brand risks of what that might mean. But Internet advertising still doesn't perform very well, and that's a challenge. How do you serve the right ads to the right user and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and innovativeness led the world—are in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell