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  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

  Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2017
  • Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program

designed to bring MBA graduates into hotel management. The 18- to 24-month on-property immersion includes rotations in operations, sales, marketing, revenue management, View Details
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Ellsworth M. Statler

    room. Statler’s genius in providing luxury-like amenities to middle and working class people helped his hotel chain become popular with every day Americans. View Details
    Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
    • 02 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Jul 2014
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    First Look: July 15

    performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 07 Sep 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

    over the network--may be destroyed. There is an answer to this problem: distributed networks with maximum connectivity (all nodes connected to each other by alternate paths... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 03 Nov 2009
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    First Look: Nov. 3

    sales message? Finally, will Verne's green benefits enable the company to overcome obstacles in the sales process, or will they alternatively overcomplicate an already complex sales message? Kato's decision... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2015
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    December 1, 2015

    2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Aug 2017
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

    agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

    management's ability to lead the transformation. Two other questions should be asked, Sull advises: "Does the change in environment threaten your company's core business?" And, "Does your company have a good View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 29 Mar 2016
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    March 29, 2016

    paper prices necessitated the development of a comprehensive financial plan to relieve the financial pressures on Stone. Among the alternatives to be considered are straight... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Dec 2014
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    First Look: December 16

    taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

    behind Coke and Pepsi. Mountain Dew is now a $4.7 billion business, and this success can be largely attributed to using advertising to create the right allegories at the right time. Brand Equity Through... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 25 Aug 2015
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    First Look Tuesday

    stability benefits. Subordinated capital provides MMFs with loss absorption capacity, lowering the probability that an MMF suffers losses large enough to trigger a run and reduces incentives to take... View Details
    • 17 May 2016
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    May 17, 2016

    2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Nov 2017
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    New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

    of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel