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- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
of the national brand? Do affiliates receive an appropriate level of national services from the fees they pay? Traditionally these strains have fueled centralization versus the decentralization debate in the nonprofit community, Grossman... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
transfer into their organizations? How can companies be sure they are collecting the right information? Heskett: The collection and processing of information about customers is one of the most critical... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
“considering the offer on the table.” “These are very generous terms,” she says. “It’s not free money necessarily, but it’s very close to that The low rates of up-take, seen in that light, are really a call to action to figure out what it... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
do so, investment funds will need to collect new data. The good news is that over the past decades, many initiatives have contributed to developing standards to assess companies’ social performance. The Sustainability Accounting Standards... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
past few years, the pro-Malay policy remains in place. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers, such as its bureaucracy, media, and civil society, and figure out if there are checks and balances in place. Managers must also determine how View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
trends might work together to solve climate change? We believe they can, but it's going to take something unprecedented in the battle to enact climate policy: aggressive CEO leadership. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
these actions actually translate into dollars and cents." That answer usually stops budget increases in their tracks; soon after, social efforts become just another box to check in the company's marketing manual. In the second instance,... View Details