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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709484 Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare Harvard Business School Case 609-103 Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
interested in studying this relatively unexplored area. Q: Why did you decide to focus on entrepreneurship in the advertising industry in your research? A: Advertising more than most businesses responds to the talents and personalities of... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation choices. With respect to accounting choices, we find that: (i) targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to provide peace of mind. While Huber knew next to nothing about... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
foreign financial institutions. "We also looked at some financial measures of performance ... By far the strongest influence turned out to be the influence of family involvement and the particular form that family involvement took.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
They instituted an incentive scheme that gave employees a financial stake in the performance of the business. They invested in IT systems and other tools to improve the ability of frontline call-center... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard tests... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect of various agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
by maintaining a relatively large balance sheet, even when policy rates have moved well away from the zero lower bound (ZLB). In so doing, it can help ensure that there is an ample supply of government-provided safe short-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, and make it safe for participants to act effectively on their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Soybean Association or the Kansas Corn Growers Association, which have the power to judge whether the GMOs are performing as intended without side effects. While these groups might have some industry members, they are separate from the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
incentives to cooperate in cyberspace. (Maintain your belief that conflict is a healthy spur to higher performance; let the victor get the spoils.) Keep reminding divisions that they are separate businesses because they are different, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
"as a vehicle for thinking about the different elements that are necessary for creativity." There are three basic components of creativity, Amabile believes. The first two are relatively straightforward: expertise in a chosen... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace