Annual Reports - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

filings in November 2020. This requires corporations to provide a section in their annual report disclosing features of their “human capital” that they deem material to their performance. To gauge the extent... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide joint forecasts of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

a decision was made to invest about $200 million in a strategy to build motorcycles in Thailand for export to Europe. Annual savings of $65 to $75 million were expected from the move. In part, this decision was prompted by the imposition... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

firm annually surveys thousands of its clients about their respective issues. Serafeim focused on survey answers from 2009 through 2011, during which some 10 percent of respondents (about 500 respondents) anonymously View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

October 1996 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Upjohn Company, The: The Upjohn-Pharmacia Merger

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Amy P. Hutton

In August 1995, the Upjohn Co. and Pharmacia AB announced a "merger of equals." This case provides background information on the industry, the position of Upjohn, and Upjohn's rationale for the proposed merger. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Statements; Business Strategy; Annual Reports; Pharmaceutical Industry

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26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

profitability, Japan introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Michael E. (1998), On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2008. Porter, Michael E., Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Scott Stern (2008), "Moving to a New Global Competitiveness Index", Global Competitiveness... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

encourage customers to place orders by year-end so they could hit their annual sales goals. But the price increase was out of line with the competition and undoubtedly ended up costing the company sales and market share. Even more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

the late 1980s, Best Buy decided to introduce a new deep-discount business model that eliminated a lot of labor costs and storage space. For the next 10 years, Circuit City ignored this despite the fact that it gave Best Buy a 10 percent cost advantage. Circuit City... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

"Radial Age" advertising campaign in 1968. 2 The August 1968 Consumer Reports awarded its top two spots to radials and documented the new technology's longer life, increased safety, handling and economy relative to even... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

conflict-resolution techniques," he suggests, "and regularly practice at least one technique that fits your style. As your comfort with conflict resolution grows, at least some of your direct reports will begin emulating... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

going on in the market now that makes that especially true? Amy C. Edmondson and Dr. Howard K. Koh: Market forces continually drive a search for competitive advantage. According to the annual Nielsen survey, about two-thirds of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

customers reported their mileage more truthfully when customers signed their annual report form before filling it out, she said. Now the British government is considering the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

fewer miles driven, the lower the annual premium—presenting a temptation to lie. Controlling for the number of cars per policy, the researchers found that the average reported mileage per car was much higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995 to 2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices,... View Details