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  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

away from certain professions: They lack confidence in their ability to compete in fields that men are stereotypically believed to perform more strongly in, such as science, math, and technology. Women are also more reluctant to share... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce will be hurt. Further, we hypothesize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

second birth), requiring, as Zaleznik described it to me in a recent e-mail, "a turning into one's self ... following which one emerges with a deepened sense of self, and relatively free of dependency on the social structure."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

theoretical model that looks beyond its idiosyncratic elements. Looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products.— Pankaj Ghemawat The case concerns STAR... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

the group of elite firms, you need to be a responsible actor. Q: What kinds of things should investors look to leverage from this study? What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) to pay attention to? A: KPIs are the Holy Grail. Since... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal structural... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

KPMG for Mayor!

villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies and nonprofits have stronger incentives... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

decreased quality) for major teaching hospitals, relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. In major teaching hospitals, in particular, we find evidence of an anticipation effect that presents as a gradual decrease in View Details
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a venture capital firm investing in what we believe are the most... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other players in the industry. (Almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350805 Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services By: Buell, Ryan W., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—As Americans' trust in government nears historic lows, frustration with government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

the educational system, with incentives to encourage advanced study in engineering as well as information and manufacturing-related technologies. In addition, they call for a national economic strategy for manufacturing, with an emphasis... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

almost certainly aren’t always used so). In general, earnings management refers to this discretionary component of accruals. In an average firm, earnings management is likely to be used to convey meaningful information on future cash flows. In the absence of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace