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- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
or is the phenomenon evident in other developed economies-such as Australia? We assessed Australians' perceived and ideal wealth distributions and compared them to the actual wealth distribution. Although the United States and Australia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
facing the firm as they rollout the program over the coming years. These include how to organize the network of schools that deliver the educational services, how to determine the best outside partners to provide additional services for the women entrepreneurs, how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Fleet management is expensive; so is wireless technology. But in the end Immediate Response is a cost saver for Progressive. The staffer may write the customer a check on the spot and such quick assessments end up reducing lawyer fees. It... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
relative one. Hoffman and his performance management evaluation team must assess the practical and strategic effectiveness of the new system and present their findings and recommendations to the Board. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
you hope to achieve? Toffel: The microsite is meant to be a resource to managers working on global supply chains, including the brands who are sourcing products, auditors who are assessing factory working conditions, and non-governmental... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
far from clear. Brexit proponents continue to argue that getting out from under the yoke of the EU will solve all its problems through better trade deals, fewer regulations, and curtailed immigration. But an objective strategic assessment... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
enough female leaders from whom to choose for our boards." Research tends to agree with the women on this one. In a recent assessment of US boards, Groysberg and Bell discovered that female board members actually had far more operational... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
Burton had to assess the plans from a global perspective. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508009 The Hertz Corporation (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-030 Examines the leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
a much more attractive deal be possible with another buyer, investor, supplier, or alliance partner?'" Rather than expend efforts at the table seeking to improve a potential deal, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
boundaries. First, we present the psychological processes that cause individuals to behave unethically without their own awareness. Next, we examine the conditions that lead people to fail to accurately assess others' unethical behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
incremental improvements to it. Each firm has its own assessment of the market potential for the radical innovation, and the reliability of these market forecasts can differ. We show that when the entrant's market-assessment capability is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
Accordingly, this review provides a framework for optimizing efficiency in the cardiac cath lab. The authors outline a management method based on the Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model, a commonly used business tool by which a company can View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
trends. Survey data, data from the Small Business Administration, and anecdotal information exist, but these are blunt tools, offering a limited snapshot of supply and demand, often with years of delay. Lack of quality data means that policy makers and regulators are... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
and electronic payment technology to assess the health of a business. Traditional lenders generally focus on both the small business owners' personal credit history and key metrics about the borrower's business, such as industry-specific... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
and debt markets. “These findings throw some doubt on the policy that has been pursued pretty much unanimously by decision-makers in Washington, D.C. to increase competition among raters.” Credit rating agencies provide an assessment of... View Details