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- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
described by Michael Porter is being fragmented by organizations; value addition ... is taking place in numerous forms ..." Their comments reflected the general assumptions among respondents that organization boundaries will continue... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
entrepreneurial environments. (The last factor in turn will be a function of tax policy, legal protections, and societal preferences.) However painful the short-run adjustments, these more fundamental factors are likely to be critical in... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
percent of US patents were software related. Since 2015, that share exploded to 50 percent as software became widespread and legal changes allowed for broader intellectual property protection, the researchers found. “During that period of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
industry practices, which the press juxtaposed against the grim realities of AIDS in southern Africa. In response, governmental and nongovernmental organizations formed a coalition that ultimately won big public health exemptions on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many constituents in the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
209-152 Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
them the lion's share of revenues in order to incentivize them. "On the other hand, I also don't think it's right to say that Uber is a pure marketplace and that it doesn't have any obligations. The answer is obviously in the middle." New Category of Worker Needed?... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience for the market in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
reputations, and capabilities of big firms. Many organizations were already employing virtual hiring tools in some form as a way to reach a broader candidate pool in a cost-effective way. According to a Society for Human Resource... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
tribal governments, the history of tribal sovereignty, the origins of Indian gaming, the legal framework that governs tribal gaming activities, as well as an analytic approach to negotiations, this paper explains the Foxwoods deal and its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
policing themselves. We investigate whether self-reporting can reliably indicate effective self-policing efforts that might provide opportunities for enforcement efficiencies. We find that regulators used self-reports of legal violations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
makes sense. So disclosure is a very important part of a better system, but it has to be more timely and apparent than in the current form of a prospectus. It was a poor performance by the banks; one that revealed a basic conflict of... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
transferred to the squatters. With the remaining 4 lawsuits still pending, 62 percent of the squatters now hold title to their land, while 38 percent do not. As a result, squatters who enjoyed the security of property rights existed in proximity to those with no View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and highlight the similarities and differences between financial innovation and other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Corporate Governance." ProfessorAlexander Dyck Dyck: "What I think is most interesting are… countries that have weak legal protections that nonetheless pursue share-issue privatizations. And the question is: Is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
of 'we're all in the same lifeboat' is a useful one, both for management . . . and for unions . . . " Tim Pinel is more optimistic. He says "Perhaps the lack of legal and cultural uniformity on a global basis is what will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett