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  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

Feldberg embarked upon a new survey of parents in two-earner households with kids under 18 at home. Across several papers recently presented at the Academy of Management meetings in Boston, they sought to understand how parents allocated... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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  • 4 Dec 2002
  • Other Presentation

Can Japan Compete? New Findings from the Global Competitiveness Report 2002

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Japan
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  • September 2013
  • Case

Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The case describes a pilot project on applying activity-based costing to measure the cost of treating patients. After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • February 2005
  • Case

Bayside Motion Group (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Bradley R. Staats
After purchasing a business and successfully growing it for 18 years, the sole owner is presented with an attractive acquisition offer from a Fortune 500 company. The company's future is bright, but is now the right time to sell? Can he create more value by waiting?... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management; Success; Private Ownership
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value

By: Michael Chu
The chapter examines the development of microfinance from its NGO origins to the present stage in which it is characterized by regulated commercial institutions capable of superior financial returns. It then looks at the creation of social value under these... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Investment Return; Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Perspective; Value Creation
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  • October 2003 (Revised October 2004)
  • Case

AT&T Canada (A)

By: Andre F. Perold and Kwame C. Van Leeuwen
AT&T Canada (ATTC) is a merger arbitrage situation where AT&T Corp. has a contractual commitment to purchase the shares of ATTC at an escalating formula price. However, ATTC's business is performing poorly, and its bonds are trading at significant discounts to par.... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • 01 May 2020
  • News

Use Tested Techniques To Help Optimize Your Performance

  • 08 Apr 2020
  • News

How To Work From Home And Still Be Productive

  • Research Summary

By: Srikant M. Datar
Datar's research interests are in the cost management and management control areas. He has published his research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives and ... View Details
  • Article

Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others' Altruism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Andres Babino and Mariano Sigman
We present results from a “corruption game” (a dictator game modified so that recipients can take a side payment in exchange for accepting a reduction in the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to be able to take more of the recipient’s tokens, took... View Details
Keywords: Convenient Beliefs; Cognitive Dissonance; Values and Beliefs; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2012
  • Comment

The Balanced Scorecard: Comments on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries

By: Robert S. Kaplan
This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his published work on the balanced scorecard (BSC). The author finds that academic commentary on the BSC often ignores its role in strategy execution. The paper discusses how the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Execution; Performance Management; Strategy; Public Sector; Balanced Scorecard; Performance
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  • August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.

By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Computer Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 11 Jun 2021
  • News

It’s 2021. Why We Still Need to Write about Women in the Workplace and the Glass Ceiling

  • 16 Aug 2013
  • Video

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending - Investing in Others

  • 25 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

of why teaming and the behaviors it requires are so crucial for organizational success in today's environment. To help illuminate the teaming process and its benefits, the chapter defines teaming, places it within a historical context, and View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

Phillip Mathew kicked things off by stating that “Selection recommendations must undergo rigorous independent review the selection criteria and process of gathering and presenting the judgment data needs to be robust, efficient, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

MBA Experience - Health Care

by faculty and includes the latest facts and figures about where students are securing internships and full-time positions. Health Care Career Days Offers panels and presentations designed to introduce students to diverse health care... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

executive we interviewed said: "Leaders must go from trying to have all the answers to being comfortable with being uncomfortable." 5. Be present The leaders we talked to acknowledged just how complex and demanding work has become for... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • December 2014
  • Case

Louis Dreyfus Commodities

By: David E. Bell
Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number of issues facing the... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Commodity Trading; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Financial Markets; Business Strategy; Product Marketing
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