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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

candidate for the Inner City 100, each company nominee must employ ten or more employees at year end; be private with at least a five-year operating history; and have at least $1 million in sales. It also must be headquartered in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

provides limited insight into how women build legitimacy through their self-narratives. Our findings from an inductive, qualitative study of 40 women who rose to elite levels in corporations or entrepreneurial ventures during the latter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers or customers with atypical demographic characteristics relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

account for secular changes in how payouts are made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of the international political dynamics of countries' IFRS harmonization decisions. The analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is also a key factor in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

power in a small socio-economic class. Such an environment was less tolerant of the elitism and paternalism found in large, family-dominated companies in Britain. A corporate meritocracy emerged that fostered the development of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a responsibility for the Office of Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

So you really watched your step and were careful about what you said.” Can’t you just imagine it? Headquarters vs. the engineers, engineering vs. manufacturing, manufacturing vs. sales, etc. leading to Boeing vs. customers and the public.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

Business, Aaron Chatterji, call “CEO activism,” in which corporate executives speak out about social or environmental issues not obviously related to their core businesses. “What prompted this research is that we kept observing instances... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate." During his tenure, Andersen had divided what had previously been operated as almost a single... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

innovative projects. Using unique data on travel, employment, and patenting for 1,315 inventors at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 50 multinational, I find that intra-firm mobility in the form of short-duration business trips from a distant R&D location to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3

Centers and corporate GM. If they did the former, they might be faced with the perception that GMTCI was limited to back-office analysis for GM's products. But when Nanua put on his headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

as early as possible during EHR optimization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49754 2015 Journal of Product & Brand Management The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand By: Urde,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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