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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 2003
  • Other Unpublished Work

Scale and Scope Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Advertising; Marketing; Advertising Industry
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  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

instructions to work with the community. This is an interesting dimension of globalization that calls for further study: multinationals transfer not only their technology, but also their values and social... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • July 2013
  • Article

Voice Pitch and the Labor Market Success of Male Chief Executive Officers

By: Christopher Parsons, W. Mayew and M. Venkatachalam
A deep voice is evolutionarily advantageous for males, but does it confer benefit in competition for leadership positions? We study ecologically valid speech from 792 male public-company Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and find that CEOs with deeper voices manage... View Details
Keywords: Success; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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  • February 2018
  • Article

Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.

By: Eva Ascarza
Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

  Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2005 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala

By: Geoffrey Jones and Marcelo Bucheli
Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half century, United Fruit had built a large vertically integrated tropical fruit business that owned large banana... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; International Relations; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Central America; Guatemala; United States
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  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

    Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

    • Web

    Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    capacity of firms in terms of skills, capabilities and management practices. Fiscal Policy: Effective public spending aligned with revenues over time Monetary Policy: Low... View Details
    • January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
    • Background Note

    Customer Lifetime Social Value (CLSV)

    By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
    One of the hallmarks of the digital revolution is the rise of the socially connected consumer. Concomitantly, the ability of companies to affect and measure the social interactions among customers has grown tremendously. Consequently, in assessing the full value of... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Customer Management; Social Contagion; Word Of Mouth; Customer Engagement; Customer Value and Value Chain; Measurement and Metrics; Customer Relationship Management
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    • 26 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

    antitakeovers experience a reduced takeover likelihood. Cross-sectional tests indicate that firms with higher innovative activity increase antitakeovers more after IDD, and those that do, experience greater... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

    but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 30 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

    the three-year analysis he conducted with coauthors Hongyu Xiao and Jaeho Kim, both of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The results provide an important lesson for companies: “If firms want... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
    • Supplement

    Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (B)

    By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
    [Continuation of "A" case.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of annual cost... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 18 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

    than the others? Does there always have to be a corporate justification? Will we see any trends? A: As I describe in the book, the paths to values are many and varied. Some managers arrive by way of a crisis... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler