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  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

the ways that firms have sought to "game" the system. We explore why the system is breaking down and propose a way in which standard setting could be redesigned to address these problems. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

extent the consequence of the legal system nations created or inherited decades or hundreds of years ago. Despite the seemingly historical nature of this explanation, most of the body of work supporting the law and finance hypothesis has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

considerations. Important impediments to the use of ESG information are the lack of reporting standards and as a result, lack of comparability, reliability, quantifiability, and timeliness. Among the different ESG investment styles,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial incentives to discourage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2010
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Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

how to divide a fixed or shrinking pie between you and the customer. Firms can do this when they craft organizational processes that gather and analyze information across their customer portfolio. And this has important implications for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Feb 2004
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Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

insisting that no one's contribution be marginalized, and framing new information within familiar contexts, teams can escape the performance pressure paradox and keep doing their best work when it matters most. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
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How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

more than mechanistic structures that defined work roles and regulated economic action. Mayo, Roethlisberger, and their followers saw organizations as social systems characterized by ideals, values, and, ideally, a purpose. An individual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2001
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Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

conclusion that follows is that perhaps the dream that Webvan was feeding—living off—will actually be realized by someone like Wal-Mart, managing only the information side of the business and not getting itself entangled in the physical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 19 May 2016
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Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

employee’s desk is only 166 meters from the clinic. Base proximity does not predict vaccination probability. Conclusions and Relevance: Minor changes in the environment can have substantial effects on the probability of vaccination. If these results generalize, health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

process. Provides in-depth information on three endorsement opportunities that each represents a common way in which talent can (choose to) get compensated: through a fixed-fee payment, a bonus payment structure, or a revenue-sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons within firms, particularly those with geographically dispersed managers-managers with the greatest information frictions. Following the controversy, pay in dispersed firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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