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  • March 1982
  • Background Note

Discounting Concept and Industrial Disinvestment

By: Robert H. Hayes and David A. Garvin
Keywords: Investment
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  • December 1980 (Revised June 1985)
  • Background Note

Management Accounting, Part IV: Decision Support Systems Disinvestment

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  • April 1986 (Revised April 1987)
  • Case

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Debate Over South African Disinvestment (A)

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Multinationale et fermetures de filiales : les conséquences sociales et politiques de décisions économiques

By: Sabine Pitteloud and Leo Grob
À travers l’analyse détaillée de deux cas de fermeture de filiale dans les années 1970, cet article s’intéresse aux conséquences sociales et politiques multiples des décisions de désinvestissement des sociétés multinationales. La première étude de cas porte sur la... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Labor Relations; Corporate Citizenship; Business ＆ Government Relations; Disinvestment; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • June 1991 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

General Electric: Reg Jones and Jack Welch

By: Francis Aguilar and Christopher A. Bartlett
When GE's retiring Reginald Jones turned the job of CEO over to Jack Welch on April 1, 1981, the Wall Street Journal reported that GE had "decided to replace a legend with a live wire." Some wondered if the young dynamo could fill the elder statesman's very large... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Change Management; Leading Change; Restructuring; Investment; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Succession
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Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Punctuated Identities and the Careers of Professional Women

This paper proposes a punctuated equilibrium model of identity change to explain how professional women's career goals and attitudes can change rapidly and dramatically during mid-career years. Data collected from interviews of 43 women alumni of an elite business... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Gender
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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

counterparts in other organizations brought to task over DEI issues." Some observers regard these issues as “paper tigers.” Threats to disinvest from ESG proponents have been followed up with action in only a few cases. How willing,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

low-price-grocery leader. But this is a position you can only hold if your costs are lower than your competitors. Through its steady disinvestment in its stores, through its high-priced union contracts, through its ill-advised... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

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