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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
how to implement Performance with Purpose in their local markets. PepsiCo India has made progress under the mission but continues to be challenged by the inherent tension between short-term financial performance and long-term investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Integrity in all dealings means taking the interests of other parties taken into account, operating with a long-term perspective rather than short-term greed or sensationalism. Anything for a deal or anything for an advantage is just as...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
make investments that will probably not result in payback during their tenure. But the following is among the qualities that distinguish the best leaders, according to George: recognizing that the only way to ensure future success is to forgo some of the View Details
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by Paul Michelman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders. Leaders must instill confidence by...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
assessment system focused on organizational values. We find a counterintuitive result: the intervention drove even higher effort on dimensions of short-term financial performance associated with preexisting monetary incentives but did not...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
But a short-term focus in many businesses and political gridlock have prevented the U.S. from taking the steps needed to meet the challenge. The U.S. retains core strengths in areas such as entrepreneurship and higher education. However,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
What are your short- and long-term goals at GBFB? “My short-term goal is simple: keep the food coming. The Food Acquisition team is responsible for all food sourcing activity (including food purchasing and managing donations) for the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
economy driven by short-term considerations rooted in financial accounting. We’ll talk about how cost cutting in recruiting and training has raised costs by driving up voluntary turnover and leading employers to rely increasingly on the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
internally. And it created an intentional culture of providing the pathways and harnessing the mindshare at the company to really create robust internal pathways for growth. Take Coca-Cola, the top-ranked company on the list. They offer many of their workers an ability...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
strategic naïveté. Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution network for ETFs....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
for the upcoming board meeting. The recent financial crisis had vividly highlighted several key issues including the adequacy of short-term liquidity, the effectiveness of portfolio risk management, and the balance of internal and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of liquidity provision is undertaken more aggressively: i) in periods when the ratio of government debt to total debt...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
today. We have a short-term goal to get to 100,000 apprentices, which starts to become a really quite meaningful scale, so you’re influencing the direction of the workforce. And the problems we’re talking about around equitable access to...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
caused by the tendency to focus on quarterly earnings growth and the necessity to appeal to shareholders who are not long-term investors. These two factors have, in many cases, spurred short-term decision making and therefore long-term...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
less financing in this period. The results are not driven by issuers' riskiness or exposure to Europe: for the same issuer, money market funds with greater exposure to Eurozone banks decrease their holdings more than other funds. We show that relationships are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
leading government officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated, narrow approach to value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
performance, but only for two years. Those who switched to firms with better capabilities and those who moved with other team members exhibited no significant decline in short-term or long-term performance. These findings suggest that...
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Martha Lagace